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Jeffrey Needle

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Nov 3, 2009, 3:27:22 PM11/3/09
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This one may not exist -- I'm not sure. The closest I can get is a
spreadsheet, but I'm not fond of them. Here are my needs:

1. Portable
2. Able to have two tables open at the same time
3. Ability to cut from one table and paste into the other table

I can do this one field at a time, of course, but I need to be able to,
in effect, send a record from one table into another table.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson

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Nov 4, 2009, 11:35:41 AM11/4/09
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If you're talking about *.dbf, the ALXSoft DbfNavigator would still be
my first freeware choice for this task. Although it doesn't support
/inserting/ during copy&paste (it always overwrites existing records),
you can quite easily add a bunch of new records by keeping F2 pressed
until the record counter has increased high enough.

DbfNavigator supports copy&paste of whole records, as well as freely
selected rectangular cell areas. You can even paste such data to
different columns. It will be inserted, as long as the data types
match. In contrast to other *.dbf editors, the data isn't written
directly to the *.dbf on disk. In case of an error, you therefore
have the chance to cancel your alterations by discarding to save them.

Unfortunately, the download from ALXSoft doesn't work, anymore. (It
has always been terribly slow.) One of the last places where you can
get it from is here:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Other.Detail&id=106

The *.zip archive is only a wrapper to the (portable) program itself,
which has the same MD5 checksum as the one I got directly from ALXSoft:

b02024e8c6781f2c9e1e5459239c7238

For the record the homepage of DbfNavigator on ALXSoft:

http://www.alxsoft.narod.ru/ENG/dbfnav.htm

BeAr
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Jeffrey Needle

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Nov 4, 2009, 1:46:02 PM11/4/09
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Thanks. I'll give it a look.

Beachbum

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Nov 7, 2009, 10:23:47 PM11/7/09
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Is the Open Office database portable version crippled somehow? The
regular version allows what you request...

Jeffrey Needle

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Nov 8, 2009, 12:12:11 AM11/8/09
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I know. I"m just looking for a smaller-footprint platform.

Thanks.

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