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cldump - Clarion database extractor
cldump [options] database.dat
cldump extracts the data contained in a Clarion database; Clarion is a Windows IDE similar to Delphi or others, and has its own (simple) database format.
cldump can extract the data contained in such a database, and export it to CSV, SQL (including the database schema, keys and indexes) or its own format (this format will give you all the meta information, but isn't easily parsable).
A Clarion database consists in a set of files :
Decryption happens in-place so KEEP A BACKUP as there is no guarantee the decryption process won't fail. Encrypted files must be decrypted before they can be dumped.
Note that only the data file and the memo file are decrypted in this process; key/index files are left untouched as cldump doesn't use them.
cldump outputs the data to stdout or stderr depending on the output format selected, the data to extract and the type of the data (data, meta data).
The SQL output could be improved. Not all the types supported by the Clarion database format are implemented yet (due to lack of test databases using these types of data); see the source code for details.
Please report bugs to jb@jblache.org; if possible, please send patches as the set of test databases I have is very limited.
cldump was written by Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>.
http://www.technologeek.org/projects/cldump/
November 2010 | Linux |