Format
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database Table File
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database Table File
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/374
- Format type
- Database
- Description
- This is a generic record for several versions of the Microsoft Visual Fox Pro database format, which at the moment we are unable to identify down to version level. This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
- File extensions
-
dbf - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
Internal signatures
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file
- Note
- Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
30??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)- Endianness
- None
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file, autoincrement enabled
- Note
- Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
31??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)- Endianness
- None
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database table file, with field type Varchar or Varbinary
- Note
- Header sequence: Version number, Date of last update MMDD, First upper or lowercase character of field name, field type (B, C, D, F, I, L, M, N, P, T, Y).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
32??[01:0C][01:1F]{28}([41:5A]|[61:7A]){10}(42|43|44|49|4C|4D|4E|50|54|59)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database Table File: Signatures developed through PRONOM Research.
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Database Table File: Outline entry added.