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Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?



On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
> > 
> > 	$ dpkg -S \*mdb\*
> That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc.
> 
> > 	postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html
> > 	postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz
> > 	postgresql-doc: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html
> > 	postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb
> > 	$ apt-cache search mdb
> > 	$ 
> > 
> > where's the *.mdb reader?
> >
> What does 'file' say about it?
> I have this strange feeling it's a Microsoft Access "database". Not that
> Access even acts like a database.

How do databases "act"?  Databases "exist", Database Management Systems
"act".

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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