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If you have the Visual Foxpro IDE, you can convert a VFP .dbf to a 
FoxDOS format using the command COPY TO filename FOX2X, then use dbf2pg 
on the resulting file.



Mike McCormac wrote:
> i've been importing older foxpro tables (x-base files) into postgresql
> with much success using dbf2pg... however, visual foxpro files don't
> seem to work -- i just get an error.
> 
> does anyone know of any successful means of importing this data
> directly?  our backend application is built in java... are there any
> good solutions with JDBC??
> 
> this is relatively urgent, so if anyone who replies can CC me at this
> email, i'd be much appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> mike
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