It depends on what your definition of access to the .xls file is.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2000/all/reskit/en-us/10ct_5.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2000/all/reskit/en-us/10ct_5.mspx
that says:
Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider Works with the Microsoft Jet database
engine, which provides access to data in Microsoft Access databases; also
provides database access to the installable Indexed Sequential Access Method
(I-ISAM) data supported by Jet tabular data stored in Microsoft Excel
workbooks, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange mail stores, dBASE tables,
Paradox tables, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, text, and HTML files.
Also, while I don't know much about it there is ADODB for Linux that I think
lets you do ADO Connections to MS Jet, SQL, etc... I am not saying this is the
best answer and its certainly on a different tangent than going ODBC. :)
Its supposedly a big thing with mySQL.
Rob Winchester
--- "Sarma, Guru (IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Is there anyway that one can use some odbc drivers to access data in
> Excel files from a UNIX machine? If so can you please tell me what are
> these .so files and where I could get hold of them.
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Rob Winchester
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