I am really not sure it is worth the time.
If it is a one-time extraction, $25 for a workstation engine is
probably far cheaper than the time to try and pry the data out.

Problem even with that is...
Unless you know the record layout and data types all you get is bytes.
That is assuming there is no security or encryption.

The btrieve data file format does not contain data type information on
any data except the data that falls on indexes. This could be a very
small part of a record.
If by some probably small chance you have a valid set of data
dictionary files ( *.DDF ) files for the data in question it makes
ODBC access available.
If you do not have DDFs, how to make them is documented and there is
some software to help, but I do not know of anybody that would call it
easy.

The best bet is an export feature from the application that stored the
data.

Leonard

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:03:43 -0500, "Andrew" <afriedl (AT) data-source (DOT) com>
wrote: