One of my early uses of GS-Base was to query super-large .dbf files (created and managed with a Clipper-compiled program that used Advantage Database Server to break the 2Gb filesize barrier).
I don’t now remember quite what had to be done to allow GS-Base to import files from this environment, but I’ve just needed to go back to one of these files and it’s stopped working. GS-Base claims, after a few minutes furiously importing data, that the source file can’t be read.
This also happens if I constrain the read to just 500000 records instead of the full 29,000,000, and if I start from record 500,000 and try to import from there, so I’m guessing it’s not a corrupt record in the early part of the dbf.
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to the original environment anymore, so doing anything with the original data involving anything other than GS-Base is going to be a challenge…
Any ideas of anything I can try?