I'm doing Groundwater Modeling and that is the appropriate input format for
the GUI I'm using (Groundwater vistas) for what I'm trying to do. Funny
enough I was able to create a dbf with 512 columns in ArcGIS but as I said I
needed more.

Thanks

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@wildintellect.com>wrote:

> On 10/13/2010 12:32 PM, kapo coulibaly wrote:
> > I imported a DBF with more than 256 columns using read.dbf. But when i
> write
> > it back out with write.dbf, only the first 256 columns are written out.
> Is
> > there a way to export dbf files with more columns. (I actually need about
> > 1200 columns)
> >
> > thanks
> >
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> Nope, that is a limitation of the dbf format. Depending on your usage of
> the output file it would be best to choose another format. Are you
> exporting a spatial file or just a data table? What end program do you
> need to be able to pull the created file into?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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