Opening a dbf file

The final piece of backing up the bank cds came from the last few months where the bank cds switched from using a xml file to a dbf file. Since it was only a few months, I decided to just open the dbf files rather than creating a script. But what opens a dbf file...the answer is OpenOffice which opened the files perfectly. I know its not very elegant but I then copied and pasted the data into the csv file created from the last post. Now, I'm ready to create a server piece so that all employees can discover if a check has cleared.