Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
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. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do man bash then search for emacs and readline (to search a manpage, type / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing pgpPYKrfk1D2u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) Cheating, and mounting my *cough* Windows partition, and running updatedb gave up this gem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate .mdb | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs file /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/1033/fpnwind.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Business Planner/msbp_pln.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/sbt/sbcm/sbcmtmpl.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/sbt/sbfm/anatools/busicomp/rma.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/Databases/Northwind Traders Sample Company.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/sbcm/sbcm.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/sbcm/sbcmlib.mdb: ASCII text, with no line terminators Which leaves me nice and confused. -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing pgpWCCt4awSJ3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* 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? It's a MicroSoft Access database file. There's an MDBTools project at SourcForge that's trying to make it possible to extract data/schema from these files (provided they aren't encrypted with user level security -- database level password security is/was trivially easy to break). -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
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
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) Hi, have a look on the http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net HTH, Rafael Sasaki
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. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. -D
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: 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. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. You missed the point ... dpkg -S includes wildcards for you means $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* and $ dpkg -S mdb do the same thing (but one is less typing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpCVb24VNrIm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:44PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: | 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. | | Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand | the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. | | You missed the point ... dpkg -S includes wildcards for you means | | $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | | and | | $ dpkg -S mdb | | do the same thing (but one is less typing). Oh, now I see :-). -D
how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* 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? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do man bash then search for emacs and readline (to search a manpage, type / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
