On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:23 -0800, Rob Winchester wrote: > > > 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 > >
Plus there's http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/mdb/index.html > > > --- "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. > > > ===== > Rob Winchester > Download OpenOffice today! > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
