Reading Shapefile DBF attributes?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

I'm sure this is an easy one.

I need to get the attributes of the shapefile from the dbf in a readable
form.

I'm going thru the archives and docs, so I may find it and render all
the excess bandwidth for naught, but I thought I'd try to optimize the
time usage, and ask the collective consciousness.

TIA, gerry
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