Gary,

There is a utility called butil.exe that comes with the Btrieve 5.10a
package. This utility can load the contents of your data files to flat
ASCII file. The command is butil -load. The ASCII file will have a
record length and the record value in a csv format.

Regards,

Randy Wickersham
Pervasive Software Inc.

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Hi Gary,



The tool you're looking for is not "butil -load" but "butil -save".
Load is for importing data /into/ the Btrieve database.



butil -save [yourtable.db] [yourtextfile.txt]



The output columns will be fixed-width. Eyeballing it, you can
determine where those delineations are and import it using a program
like MSAccess.



If you have the DDFs already, I suggest using Gil's method. If the
application made use of binary data, go ahead and use BtSearch to create
the DDFs. If the application did not (and I've seen commercial programs
record integers and floats in plaintext in Btrieve), the butil -save
method will almost certainly be easiest.



-Adam


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