user7147: When a USCF rated tournament is submitted for rating, the tournament director submits to the USCF a set of dBase III files (.DBF files) that include the tournament data.  I've never seen a description of the structure of those files anywhere - I mean, I know they're dBase files, but as far as the fields and such.  Does such a description exist?
A long while back, I was talking to someone at the USCF who worked on the website and online tournament submission, who told me that there was in the planning stages an XML-based format for submitting tournament results, and that it was in limited testing at that time.  I've never seen nor heard anything else about this since then.  Is anything like this still in progress?  Is there a description of that format anywhere?

user20721: Google turned up many ways to read or convert DBF files as well as detailed descriptions of the contents.
See the gory details here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dbf#File_architecture_overview
and yet more gory here:
http://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/INT/db7_file_fmt.htm
with more details still at this site
http://web.archive.org/web/20150323061445/http://ulisse.elettra.trieste.it/services/doc/dbase/DBFstruct.htm
yet another view of the DBF file
https://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html

user20867: Years ago I worked with these as just a hobbyist. I downloaded a resource document about an old piece of software called Tournament Administrator. The source site is gone, but the Internet Wayback Machine still had it from 2006 (2008 corrupted):
https://web.archive.org/web/20060622121352/http://www.georgejohn.bcentralhost.com:80/GeorgeJohn/Chess/USCF/Computer/Current/Appendix_E1_TA_files.htm
I can't find any resource for newer USCF file formats. Good luck!

7147: <p>When a USCF rated tournament is submitted for rating, the tournament director submits to the USCF a set of dBase III files (.DBF files) that include the tournament data.  I've never seen a description of the structure of those files anywhere - I mean, I know they're dBase files, but as far as the fields and such.  Does such a description exist?</p>

<p>A long while back, I was talking to someone at the USCF who worked on the website and online tournament submission, who told me that there was in the planning stages an XML-based format for submitting tournament results, and that it was in limited testing at that time.  I've never seen nor heard anything else about this since then.  Is anything like this still in progress?  Is there a description of that format anywhere?</p>
 20721: <p>Google turned up many ways to read or convert DBF files as well as detailed descriptions of the contents.</p>

<p>See the gory details here
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dbf#File_architecture_overview" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dbf#File_architecture_overview</a></p>

<p>and yet more gory here:
<a href="http://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/INT/db7_file_fmt.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/INT/db7_file_fmt.htm</a></p>

<p>with more details still at this site
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150323061445/http://ulisse.elettra.trieste.it/services/doc/dbase/DBFstruct.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://web.archive.org/web/20150323061445/http://ulisse.elettra.trieste.it/services/doc/dbase/DBFstruct.htm</a></p>

<p>yet another view of the DBF file
<a href="https://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html</a></p>
 20867: <p>Years ago I worked with these as just a hobbyist. I downloaded a resource document about an old piece of software called Tournament Administrator. The source site is gone, but the Internet Wayback Machine still had it from 2006 (2008 corrupted):</p>

<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060622121352/http://www.georgejohn.bcentralhost.com:80/GeorgeJohn/Chess/USCF/Computer/Current/Appendix_E1_TA_files.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20060622121352/http://www.georgejohn.bcentralhost.com:80/GeorgeJohn/Chess/USCF/Computer/Current/Appendix_E1_TA_files.htm</a></p>

<p>I can't find any resource for newer USCF file formats. Good luck!</p>
