DANS DBF Library 1.0.0 Beta 09

DANS DBF Library 1.0.0 Beta 09 comes as a free, convenient and reliable Java library created for reading and writing xBase database files. xBase is the name commonly used for dBase and its dialects. The central file in these databases is the DBF file or DataBase File, hence the name of this library.

DANS is a Dutch electronic archiving institute under the auspices of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and partially funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). It is the initiator of this project. DANS is making this library available under the GNU Public Licence. For more information about DANS, see the DANS website. This library is used by DANS for the MIXED Project.

Enhancements:

• Applied patch by Evgeniy Romanchenko which solved a the following bug. The filtering of soft returns from a string value was broken. A soft return is 0x8d followed by 0x0a. However if a 0x8d appeared by itself, it and the following character were also filtered, which is incorrect.