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==== DB3 export to Corel Wordperfect Merge Y2K Fix (AREV Specific) ====
=== At 04 JAN 2000 02:51:55PM Timothy Mead (Great Western Insurance Company) wrote: ===
 
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Corel WordPerfect 7 and 8 will not merge from a DB3 export file created after 12/31/99. If any one else has this same problem, I have the fix (easy and clean). Bytes 1-3 of the .DBF header contains a last updated date in the form YY MM DD. Because a byte has a value from 0 to 255, the ascii value of each byte represents the Year  Month and Day. Corel reads that date, and doesn't like 0 as a year.



I have a 4 line program to force the date 99 01 01 into the header. Corel is ok with this date, therefore the merge function works like it did in 1999. I would be happy to supply the program to anyone interested. (email eartheco@relia.net)
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