From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Tue Sep 23 14:33:07 1997
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:33:07 -0400
Subject: R-alpha: read.dbf
References: <6ren6men84.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>
 <199709181452.QAA19001@sophie.ethz.ch> <199709221137.NAA18680@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <97Sep23.093520edt.26501@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>

...
>applied to e.g. reading in xbase files using a (still unwritten) pseudo

>method read.dbf which would be called if the generic read figures out
...

If you're going to get into reading databases let me know. I've already
done a fair amount of work on this and have a working interface to Fame
time series databases (and any other database which can be made to
support a generic protocol I've been working on).

Paul Gilbert

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R-alpha: read.dbf
Paul Gilbert