Creating a tab or space delimited file from Firebird table

Hi all,

I haven't had a need to do this until now, but I need to move some data to a 
tab-delimited file so it can be read by another program.  (One of my 
collegues needs it.) Can Firebird do this directly? How do I do it in dBase? 
Anything will help, I have no idea where to even start.

Dain Lochridge 

Dain Lochridge wrote
>
> I haven't had a need to do this until now, but I need to move some data to

> a tab-delimited file so it can be read by another program.  (One of my 
> collegues needs it.) Can Firebird do this directly? How do I do it in 
> dBase? Anything will help, I have no idea where to even start.
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Checking the dUFLP maybe?

Roland 

if you are working with a dbf file, see the OLH on copy to SDF.

"Dain Lochridge" <deloch@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:Re1nW3blIHA.136@news-server...
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't had a need to do this until now, but I need to move some data to

> a tab-delimited file so it can be read by another program.  (One of my 
> collegues needs it.) Can Firebird do this directly? How do I do it in 
> dBase? Anything will help, I have no idea where to even start.
>
> Dain Lochridge
> 

In article <Re1nW3blIHA.136@news-server>, deloch@hotmail.com says...
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't had a need to do this until now, but I need to move some data to
a 
> tab-delimited file so it can be read by another program.  (One of my 
> collegues needs it.) Can Firebird do this directly? How do I do it in
dBase? 
> Anything will help, I have no idea where to even start.
> 
> Dain Lochridge 
> 

Dain,

I seem to recall there is something in the dUFLP at Ken Mayer's web site 
which can help with this type of export:

http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/
-- 
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Dain Lochridge schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't had a need to do this until now, but I need to move some data to
a 
> tab-delimited file so it can be read by another program.  (One of my 
> collegues needs it.) Can Firebird do this directly? How do I do it in
dBase? 
> Anything will help, I have no idea where to even start.

I know you can do with Firebird, but I never did it.
And where I am right now I don't have documentation on this topic.

Keyword is "external table".

You can use this to bind an external CSV|TXT as a table to the database 
and also to export data.

If you are using IBExpert in the professional version, there is a