cldump(1)
NAME
cldump - Clarion database extractor
SYNOPSIS
cldump [options] database.dat
DESCRIPTION
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 :
.DAT files contain the data,
.Kxx files contain the key/index data,
.MEM files contain the memo entries associated to the data.
OPTIONS
- -d, --dump-active
- Dump active entries only
- -D, --dump-data
- Dump the actual data (active and deleted entries)
- -m, --dump-meta
- Dump meta information (no SQL or CSV output format exist for this option)
- -f c, --field-separator c
- Set the field separator to character c. Only valid for CSV output (see below).
- -c, --csv
- Dump data or schema in CSV format
- -S, --sql
- Dump data or schema in SQL format
- -s, --schema
- Dump database schema
- -M, --mysql
- Use MySQL specific construct (backticks, ...)
- -n, --no-memo
- Do not dump memo entries
- -U[charset], --utf8[=charset]
- Transcode strings and memos from charset to UTF-8 (charset defaults to ISO8859-1; for the list of supported charsets, see iconv --list)
OUTPUT
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).
BUGS
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.
AUTHOR
cldump was written by Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>.
HOMEPAGE
- http://www.technologeek.org/projects/cldump/