> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:27:22 -0500, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>> This one may not exist -- I'm not sure. The closest I can get is a
>> spreadsheet, but I'm not fond of them. Here are my needs:
>> 1. Portable
>> 2. Able to have two tables open at the same time
>> 3. Ability to cut from one table and paste into the other table
>> I can do this one field at a time, of course, but I need to be able to,
>> in effect, send a record from one table into another table.
> If you're talking about *.dbf, the ALXSoft DbfNavigator would still be
> my first freeware choice for this task. Although it doesn't support
> /inserting/ during copy&paste (it always overwrites existing records),
> you can quite easily add a bunch of new records by keeping F2 pressed
> until the record counter has increased high enough.
> DbfNavigator supports copy&paste of whole records, as well as freely
> selected rectangular cell areas. You can even paste such data to
> different columns. It will be inserted, as long as the data types
> match. In contrast to other *.dbf editors, the data isn't written
> directly to the *.dbf on disk. In case of an error, you therefore
> have the chance to cancel your alterations by discarding to save them.
> Unfortunately, the download from ALXSoft doesn't work, anymore. (It
> has always been terribly slow.) One of the last places where you can
> get it from is here:
> http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Other.Detail&id=106
> The *.zip archive is only a wrapper to the (portable) program itself,
> which has the same MD5 checksum as the one I got directly from ALXSoft:
> b02024e8c6781f2c9e1e5459239c7238
> For the record the homepage of DbfNavigator on ALXSoft:
> http://www.alxsoft.narod.ru/ENG/dbfnav.htm
> BeAr
Thanks. I'll give it a look.