Re: read ms-access .mdb files

[David Piniella <dpiniell@newssun.med.miami.edu>]

Rajesh Menon wrote:

> hi - anyone here tried to open/read .mdb files?
> im on debian sid with openoffice 1.1, and the mdb-tools utilities (the
> manpages of which aren't too descriptive.)
> i noticed a page returned by google describing how to install and run
> everything from src, but i wanted to make sure before i did all that ...
> thanks.
>
>
> rajesh menon at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/
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>
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OO.o chokes on access files. Try Codeweaver's CrossOverOffice product 
(they'll send you a link to a test copy if you email them for one, or 
there might be a link on their page for it.)

With it (and an office CD,) you can install Office (and IE) on linux; 
I've done this with a SuSE box and a Debian woody box. It's done via 
wine and you'll need the windows CDs.

I have not done much work with access so can't say specifically about 
that, but i know it runs office docs natively.

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David Piniella
University of Miami