On Wednesday, Nov 3, 2004, at 14:56 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote:
Some possible solutions:
1) install Windows and Access 2) install Windows, OpenOffice.org, and ODBC 3) under Linux, install CrossOver office and install Access 4) under Linux, install OpenOffice.org CrossOver office, install the Microsoft Jet Engine, configure UNIX-ODBC (adapted from http://dba.openoffice.org/FAQ/FAQ.html#msaccess)
#3 works.
Excellent. I'll try that on the Xandros 2 Deluxe that I have. What version of CrossOver Office do you have, or does it matter?
Someone on another list recommended using the mdbtools which I'm looking at right now:
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
I'm thinking maybe Knoppix with a USB stick to hold the mdbtools.debs (if they exist). So the process would look like so:
- boot knoppix
- insert USB stick with mdbtools.debs
- install mdbtools
- query .mdb file to dump the data
That would be an all-FLOSS solution. That sound reasonable? Has anyone done something like this?
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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