On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > It seems like if you can get an instance of Access running with the file, > > you should be able to use ODBC to extract the data. > > Indeed, but that would require running Windows, obtaining a copy & > license for Access, not to mention all the faffing with DSN and connect > permissions, AFAIK. In all, it would add to the number of my problems, > rather than reduce them :-)
Isn't there a system that does have a license to run Access somewhere - ie where the mdb file came from? I agree that it's not ideal however neither is it ideal to be making the conversions on a platform without full access to the data. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
