.dbf files

ArcGIS output may be saved as a .dbf file, with no immediately apparent way to save as a .txt, or even to copy and paste the cells to a simple spreadsheet program (why? why?).

I had no idea what to do about this so I just downloaded a small program that converts the .dbf to .csv.

http://www.fileguru.com/DBF-To-CSV/download

I did this a couple days ago so now I have no recollection of how it worked, I just remember that it worked, and I copied the data into a google docs spreadsheet. Open Office won't even install on my computer, how lame is that?

If anyone else knows a more intelligent way to do this, please share.

Somebody else talks about .dbf and .xls:
http://gisatvassar.blogspot.com/2008/02/excel-dbf-files-and-arcgis-92.html

Note, 7/14/2010, This is the way to do it:
http://matlabor.blogspot.com/2010/07/export-table-to-ascii.html