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Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?



On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:06:42AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) [030908 20:32]:
> > I did find HTML tags like
> > 
> > <META name="oracleid" value="229934">
> > <META name="tocpath" value="1::Book 2;1::Electronic Components;1::Component Packaging - miniReelTM, Reels & Tubes;1::Capacitor/Resistor Networks">
> > <META name="smd_tiff" value="">
> > <META name="PageNo" value="">
> > 
> > in one of the .dat files, though only that one - perhaps an Oracle
> > database is involved? From what I can make out, dbishell can read
> > Oracle data, but it needs a perl module DBD::Oracle to be built, which
> > requires some of the proprietary Oracle code. So it looks like I may
> > be out of luck. In any case, dbishell is a command-line tool, and I
> > need a graphical app to read the graphical data.
> 
> I was thinking that these were some kind of database storage files, and
> given the oracleid up there, I'd go along with your guess that it's
> Oracle.  There's no good reason I can think of why Farnell wouldn't be
> able to just tell you "they're Oracle files", though.
> 
> In case you do want to give it a try, you can download Oracle for linux
> gratis from oracle.com.  You shouldn't have to purchase a license for
> the type of usage you're talking about (but IANAL).

Thanks, but it's a gig and a half and I'm on metered dialup. It's
looking like wine is my best solution at the moment.

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