[Gllug] Reading an Access97 mdb file

[chris.wareham at btopenworld.com]

Stan <stan at plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a way that I can extract data from a table held in
> a access97 .mdb file...a perl modules would be best (can't find
> anything on CPAN) but any linuxy thing would be useful.
> 
> I know that I can export the data if I run access on a windows machine
> but this is a task that would need to be done daily so a nightly cron
> seems best to me!
> 

Have a look at:

  http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/

It's a suite of tools to manipulate mdb files, and comes with an
impressive GNOME frontend, altough that but appears to be
optional.

Chris

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