As I had a request and I must agree it really makes sense, I developed a console version of the DBF2Oracle tool. Functionality is the same, just that you need to give it parameters from command line.

Usage is:
C:\>DBFImportConsole.exe [file] [username] [password] [TNS]
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UPDATE 2008-11-05! A console version is available here
Since I had more and more requests for DBF migrations to Oracle and SQL Developer offers no support for DBF migrations, I decided to make a tool to ease my work. There used to be a command prompt tool (ImpDBF.exe) which generates the equivalent table for Oracle and SQL*Loader scripts for importing the data. This tool was for Oracle 7 and 8 and I don’t have the source code for this tool.
The workaround was to create a frontend for that tool that can also fix problems in generated files.
The result is the like this:

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dbase,
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foxpro,
import,
migration,
oracle
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