[Gllug] Reading an Access97 mdb file

[BABA Yoshihiko]

Stan wrote:

> The card system is running on WinXP Pro.  This sounds like a more
> powerful method, there are a few other things that I'd eventually like
> to be able to do with this damn access database and this might be the
> way to go, and would save me fiddling with VB (which is what I thought
> I'd have to do).
> 
> I'll pop into a bookshop at lunchtime and see how tricky it all looks
> (I've never tried controlling windows aps through scripting - I wasn't

If on Windows, you can use ADO with your favourite scripting language.
I sometimes use ADO from Ruby.  One good feature of ADO is it can
open/save recordset as XML format.

-- 
BABA Yoshihiko



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