i have only dat and idx on my novell server no nml no ddf
i would like to export data to access or on a mysql db i want to read data
file out from btrieve
I tried some applications to define the ddf  but no one works.(persiscope,

i have a problem with starting mkded:
# ./mkded
Aborted
#

I have a large number of binary .NDB database files that I need to
access the contents of. Would anyone know of any utility (or
Access/Excel plugin) that can view the contents of these files or
failing details of the format?

Have Pervasive gone out of the business of actually producing their
own software, now that they are supporting PostgreSQL?
It seems that it's easier to support other people's work rather than
do it oneself - and Pervasive was never a big player anyway. Where

I have an urgent requirement in my module, to develop an application
that can access and update btrieve files stored on Novell Netware. I am
totally new to this concept, so please help me regarding how is it
supposed to be done. I even don't have an idea regarding which

Maybe a bit offtopic but it is a problem we encounter more and more at our
clients' sites. Sometimes we get a "DBMS error during fetch operation: 19"
on the magic status bar. It occurs in different screens / different tasks of
our application. However, we cannot reproduce this ...

At a client site we encountered the problem that a certain file grew with
3Mb a day, the same amount of data went into the table as was deleted. When
we recover this file, the size decreases to its original size. We then got
the tip that we should modify the pervasive 8 setting ...

I have an application that imports data from a Timberline database via
Timberline's own ODBC driver.  The application is written in C# and
uses the MS ODBC.Net provider to connect to a Timberline database via a
DSN set up with the Timberline ODBC driver.

Hi, I'm trying to parse for a numeric string from a column in a table.
What I'm looking for is a numeric string of a fixed length of 8. The
column is a comments field and can contain the numeric string in any
position. I'm not familiar with ActiveX, so any suggestions will be

Can someone help me in writing a C/C++ program to update btrieve files
(.dat or .sav file) .

Hi,
everytime we want to open a table using Pervasive Control Center, we
get the following error:
ODBC Error: SQLSTATE = S1000, Native error code = 0

Hello.  I'm trying to concatenate two values together.  I'm querying
Pervasive SQL 2000i SP4 as supplied with Timberline 8.3 through the
supplied ODBC interface.
I've tried:

is there a way to find out if a particular table is being use?
and how do you can find out if a record is beig use (del, insert, update)
regards,
Bre-x

Has anybody tried obtaining data from MACESS in real-time? We need to
integrate our existing system (user-interface) with MACESS, and would
like to provide on-the-fly access to specific data that resides in
MACESS.