Actually since MDB Tools is also an ODBC driver, you could probably use 
DBD::ODBC as well.  Although to be honest, the SQL engine and ODBC driver 
have a number of nasty bugs.

I haven't tried this arrangement myself, so buyer beware.

Brian

On 25 Jun 2002, Jeff Zucker wrote:

> Orlando Andico wrote:
> 
> > It IS possible to read MSAccess files on a Linux box.
> > http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> Hmm, I had no idea that was available, forget my advice about saving the 
> Access files as CSV.
> 
> At first glance it looks like it would be trivial to build an 
> AnyData::Format::Access.pm using mdbtools which would then provide 
> direct DBI interface to the MDB files.  If anyone is interested in doing 
> this, let me know and I'll help.
> 
> 

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