I had need to convert a cardfile data base to another format. Regretably, the description document, while possibly correct, is quite incomprehensible. For a wonder, Microsoft has actually documented the format Support Doc 99340. The cardfile data format is extrordinarily complex for a rather simple program. (I'm looking into it Note, Aug 2010 - never found a satisfactory answer). The WINE problems may or may not be insurmountable. It runs after a fashion on WINE under Linux but there are serious font problems and the OLE functions do not work. Although CARDFILE was only shipped with Windows 3 (and Windows NT rel 3.51?), it runs fine with Windows 9, Me, 2000, and XP. The cardfile program was ignored by most people, but a few people have found uses for it. The OLE objects can be pretty much anything that can be accessed via OLE - a picture (BMP format only?), a sound, a program link, etc. It has a fixed database format consisting of a 39 character title, an optional text field of 440 characters, and a single optional OLE object. CARDFILE.EXE is a small, simple, database program that Microsoft included in Windows 3.
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