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. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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