Hi Swarup, I am little lost now in the this conversation.
If you mean, if you do the steps that involved the Copy Table dialog opening and you creating a new table in the database that way. If so, then yes at that point you have a regular table, in a regular Base database file. Drew On 9/26/07, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > If someone could send a reply to the below, then I think I'd have all > the info I need about doing the install using this technique. > Thanks, > Swarup > ---------------------------------------------------- > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:18 -0400, Andrew Jensen wrote: > > Well, if all you really want to do is query it. > > > > Copy it to a directory within your Linux partition ( not absolutely > > necessary ) > > From OO.org create a new Base file. > > Instead of a default type select 'Connect to existing database..' and > > select TEXT from the drop down listbox. > > > > Follow the instructions and where asked for select the directory where > > the file is located. > > > > When you open the Base file the file will appear as a table. > > Wonderful! That sounds very do-able. > > Thank you so much. I didn't realize it could be so simple. > > Such a complex process I went through to manage the import via Calc in > OO 2.2. Is the result going to be the same as what I did there, insofar > as it being a standard Base table? > > > If you need to edit the data it is a little different. > > I will be needing to add new rows to the table. And on occasion I will > need to change some data in the pre-existing rows. Is that going to be > do-able? If you could just explain briefly what you mean by "a little > different". > > Many thanks, > Swarup > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
