RE: TZF - DBF not a dBase file

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Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.delphi.topaz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I found this as well, and changed it as an experiement (from 255 to 300) 
and it did open the database just fine.  However, even though it opens 
it, it can't use it because the list of fields appears to get truncated. 
 So I guess that's not quite the answer....


=?iso-8859-1?q?werner=20beck?= wrote:
> 
> have you seen this ? : ( in tzdbflow.hed )
> const
>   MaxFieldCount  = 255;           { maximum number of fields allowed
> per database record }
> 
> I guess the header record has just a Byte for it
> 
> Cheers
> Werner
> 
> 
>  --- [email protected] schrieb: > After further
> investigating, it turns out the structures are not 
> > identical.  SO much for taking people at their words.
> > 
> > Ok, so the next question then is what kind of dBase file allows for
> > more 
> > than 255 fields?  That's the difference in these two files.  One has
> > 253 
> > fields, and the second has 265 fields.  Not that it matters much I
> > guess 
> > since Topaz won't open it regardless, eh.
> > 
> >  
> 
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