To examine the structure of a dBASE V .dbf file, use this command:
dbfstruct filename.dbf
Here is an example of this program operating on a version
of Shipstat.dbf:
File name shipstat.dbf Last update 2004-09-29 Number of records 1004 Record length 117 Number of fields 9 Name Type Length Decimals ---- ---- ------ -------- REGION C 1 0 STA N 5 0 LOC C 4 0 NAME C 30 0 STATION C 4 0 STATE C 2 0 WORKPHONE C 19 0 FIRSTNAME C 30 0 LASTNAME C 21 0