> From: Eric Strovink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Write a simple socket interface to connect Apache Perl to your existing
Windoze Perl script (which you'll hack to set up as a simple server). Invent
your own protocol. Locking issues will come
> up, but you can manage this yourself with a little creativity. There are
pretty good examples of how to do simple socket things with Perl, in the Perl
books.
This has already been done! See DBD::Proxy.
This allows you to run a little perl Program on the machine with the Access
DB which acts as a proxy DB server, then the client uses
DBD::Proxy (as opposed to DBD::Oracle or whatever) to access the
database.
Never tried it myself, but it sounds cool!
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