Floris Bos wrote:
Hi,
I've got a big problem. I've got an old program that's written in Turbo
Pascal, I don't know which version. I've only got the compiled
executable (.exe file), I haven't got the source code. The program works
with a database that consists of .dta and .key files which represent the
data tables.
The program has been used for years and the database contains lots of
data that has been build up through these years. The problem is that I
want to stop using this program but need to extract the data somehow. My
goal is to convert this Turbo Pascal database to MS Excel or MS Access
so that the data can be used by these MS Office applications.
Is there a way to accomplish this and if so, how? Any help would be very
much appreciated because this is a HUGE problem for me.
It looks that these datafiles use proprietary format which will not be
understood unless you have the source code (it's not the case) or you
use reverse engineering techniques (really hard to accomplish).
The only way i see is to export the data to a text file using a possible
report function of the program (if it exists) and then create a program
to parse the file and save in the desired format.
Luiz
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