On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:21:04PM -0400, Chris Devers 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 :-) >
I'm absolutely sure I have seen a project that is aiming to produce an open source library for access databases bt for the life of me I can't find it in any of the usual places. /J\