Xbase (formerly known as xdb, also formerly known as xbase) is a collection of specifiations, programs, utilities and a c++ class library for manipulating xbase type datafiles and indices.

xbase is useful for accessing data in legacy dbase 3 and 4 database files as well as a general light-weight database engine. it includes support for dbf (dbase version 3 and 4) data files, ndx and ntx indexes, and dbt (dbase version 3 and 4). it supports file and record locking under *nix os's.

this package contains the utility files for xbase distributed with xbase.