I've been looking for a simple database tool for my work with C programming and bibliographical database systems. During my investigation of a lot of BBS's, FTP sites, toolboxes etc. I've discovered at lot of almost-ready-to-fly Xbase clones. This made me wonder why noone has collected a description of Xbase files AND made a simple package of C functions to handle this type of data files.
Unfortionately I never got beond the point of describing the structure (sic!). But a lot of brave people has done a lot of hard work to make the libraries available for you like (see the reference list).

WARNING ! ! !  DO *NOT*  attempt to manipulate any critical database files *WITHOUT* making a proper and validated backup first.  DO *NOT*  access any database files in a multi-user environment!  DO *NOT* access the files in text mode. Use binary mode only !