Hi jwdietrich & the rest,
I can reproduce the issue on another architecture:
Tested on big endian MIPS with FPC trunk:
- dbftool creates and reads tablelevel 4 (DBase4) and 7 (Visual dBase VII) ok
- test dbf from the bug report is identified as tablelevel 7, code page 1252 (OK) but no data shown.
Reading the dbf on x86 Windows does show data
=> i.e. same symptom as on OSX PPC suggesting an endian issue