[olug] ms access

J.R. Wessels jwessels at cse.unl.edu
Mon Sep 30 20:06:15 UTC 2002


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Browsing through Open Office 1.0.1, and it doesn't look like it 
supports any type of Access file.  I checked in the file open and in 
the database sources dialogs.

On Monday 30 September 2002 02:54 pm, you wrote:
> I dont think what you found will not work.  I have the *.mdb file
> on my linux box and am not using any odbc drivers.  have found
> mdbtools-0.4 which works with Access 97.  The database uses Office
> 2000. MDBtools bails out segmentation faults. Documentation is
> pretty sparse. No man pages.
>
>
>  ..I think I am screwed on this one.  Have not tried Open Office or
> other Linux based Office packages.
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:23, CM Miller wrote:
> > Since I work with M$ Access on a day to day basis,
> > this really interested me, so out I go to freshmeat
> > and I found this.
> >
> > http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=microsoft+access&section=projects&
> >x=0&y=0
> >
> > Let me know what you end up using for a solution.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > --- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
> > > On 30 Sep 2002 10:57:49 -0500
> > >
> > > roger schmeits <schmeits at clarksoncollege.edu> wrote:
> > > |Looking for an app. to read MS access tables.
> > >
> > > Looking thru freshmeat
> > >
> > > |right now thought someone might have some ideas.
> > >
> > > star office, open office?
> > >
> > >
> > >   Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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