Formal metadata: information and software
Formal metadata information and software
Note that the program you run is called dbfmeta (all lower-case letters) but like Tkme, I refer to it using the mixed-case form DBFmeta.
dbfmeta myfile.dbf -o temp.met
-i
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-strict
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dbfmeta [-i] [-strict] input_file [-o output_file]
Version | When | Who | What |
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1.13 | 20040414 | PNS | Fixed bug in which |
1.12 | 20040213 | PNS | Fix code calculating the maximum number of nonblank characters in a string field. Added code to read integer fields as long long 64-bit) signed integers. This is more complex but might be more reliable for long numerical code attributes the DBF file thinks are integer. Thanks to Hugh Phillips for pointing out the issue with long integers. |
1.11 | 20030312 | PNS | Modified to allow use to omit descriptions of specific fields by name. |
1.10 | 20020729 | PNS | For character fields, find the length of the longest value, treating trailing blanks as if they didn't exist. Report this to the user. |
1.9 | 20020614 | PNS | Fixed bug introduced by last fix; enlarge the space allocated for each string value by one to hold the terminating nul byte (D'oh!). |
1.8 | 20020611 | PNS | Fix code so that the single real number can occur more than once and still be considered a special value. Modified dbfopen.c to not strip space from string values by default. |
1.7 | 20020528 | PNS | Open the input file before worrying about naming the output file. Fixed bug that caused the verbose statistical report to not show intege values. Describe in an Enumerated_Domain a singleton real number. Thanks to Hugh Phillips for catching these problems. |
1.6 | 20020411 | PNS | Modified to output SGML or XML if the output file name looks like it has that extension. |
1.5 | 20020206 | PNS | Modified to open dbf file read-only and to report duplicate names to stdout rather than stderr. |
1.4 | 20010926 | PNS | Added code to report the number of blank records in a string field. |
1.3 | 20010227 | PNS | Revised handling of attribute information by reading all fields at once. This enables me to check for duplicate field names. |
1.2 | 20010126 | PNS | Added code to skip attributes whose names match those that are intrinsic to Arc/Info. Fixed bug in counting unique string values. |
1.1 | 20010125 | PNS | Modified handling of enumerated domains to give some statistical information about the values. |
1.0 | 20010124 | PNS | First release. |
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