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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:46:31+00:00

We’ve been given the task by my customer to export data from a legacy

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We’ve been given the task by my customer to export data from a legacy DOS system, using a RAIMA database, so it can be imported into a new system we are writing for them. It looks like the data is stored in a flat file format, though when we open the files most of the text is gibberish.

We do see Raima Database Manager along the top of the files we opened … We tried Googling that term and seems it is an old database format. Needless to say the vendor who wrote the software no longer supports it. Is there any other way we can get this data to export?

Is there a way to automatically scrape the data from the screen?

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It’s a simple invoicing system, all the information is on a single screen in the application.

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  1. for Raima Data Manager Version 3.21A This article indicates that the app was likely written in C and it used Raima Data Definition Language to structure the files – look in the files for something similar check the .dbd and .tbl – you may have to view them with something like VI that has a hex mode. It is very likely the data structures are embeded in one of the files.

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    here’s some links that might lead you to more information

    http://www.raima.com/

    http://www.raima.com/database_technology/rdm.php3 http://www.raima.com/database/download.php3

    http://database.ittoolbox.com/topics/t.asp?t=411&p=415&h1=411&h2=412&h3=415

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/databases/free-databases/

    http://www.ittia.com/products/ittia_odbc.html

    http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.07/07.02/db_VistaIII/index.html

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