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Hello, from Germany

I'm looking for the RDD-Header-Information of a DBF,
how the database has been created ( NTX / CDX )
I need it, because i must know,
if the DBF is converted from NTX to CDX.
Without Index and Memo, there is no way to find out.
The Information must be somewhere in the file-header.

I checked the DBINFO - Function with all parameters,
but couldn't find a Parameter, for any informations
what RDD has been used during the creation of the DBF.
When the DBF has a MEMO, i can ask for the MEMO-Type ( FPT ).
But what to do, when there is no memo and no index ?

The Parameter DBI_RDD_VERSION returns the
same for NTX and CDX => a Version No., but of what ?

Somebody knows what to do ?

Regards
U. König

Uwe,

read the information direct from the dbf with the low level functions fopen(), fread()

U. König,

What you want to know is if it uses NTX or CDX ?

ukoenig wrote:Somebody knows what to do ?

FUNCTION CabDbf (cNom)
LOCAL nHnd, cBytes, nCdx, cCdx
cNom := cNom + '.dbf'

// öffnen wir die Datei exclusiv (binary)
// Abrimos el fichero en exclusiva (binario)
IF (nHnd := FOpen( cNom, 18 )) > 0

// gehe wir zu byte 28
// vamos al byte 28
FSeek( nHnd, 28 )

// beginnen wir die Variable
// iniciamos la variable
cBytes := '0'

// esen wir die Hauptpunkte der byte 28
// leemos en la cabecera el byte 28
FRead(nHnd, @cBytes, 1)
nCdx := Bin2I(cBytes)
IF nCdx = 1
cCdx := "Table CDX"
ELSE
cCdx := "NICHT CDX"
ENDI

MSGINFO ( cCdx )

FClose(nHnd)
ENDIF

RETURN nil

Entschuldigen sie bitte mein deutsch

Tschüss

Dear Mr. Valdenebro

Thank you very much for the function.
It works great.
It is exactly, what i need.
As a sample :
When i work with NTX and CDX together
and use a wrong RDD. i had some problems
because =>
DEFAULT = "NTX. I open a CDX-DBF
i cannot look for the ???.CDX .and. ???.FPT
the CDX - name is not the same like the DBF with no MEMO,
there was no chance to look for the type.

Regards

Uwe König