On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:04 +0200, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > >>I have a database file downloaded from the net, whose extension is > >>.MDB. Checking its properties shows that it is a Microsoft Access Jet > >>Database file. > >> > >>Is there some way I cold look at this using OpenOffice? > >> > >>I'm using OO 2.0.2 on UBuntu. > > > > Nice to hear from you. The answer is that you have to install a driver. > > Please see http://dba.openoffice.org/ for the MDB driver for Linux. > > This driver does not reflect the latest development, if possible, please > use the latest OOo snapshot from > http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/mdbdriver02/. > > Be aware that both the downloadable driver and the complete OOo snapshot > which contains it are work in progress. Make backups, and don't rely > your business on it ... >
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