On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:47, Elliot Somers wrote: > I have an upcomming need to be able to manipulate and use a database > written in MS Access. Anyone know of a program that will allow me to do > this in Mandrake? GPL Preferred, but curious of anything out there. I'm > trying to do everything I used to in Linux, without the need for dual boot > if possible. > Thanks, > Elliot
Access databases are problematic on Linux, as M$ has not well documented the format. There's packages in contrib called mdbtools and mdbtools-gui that allow you to read Access97, Access2000 and Access2002 databases, but not write to them (currently under development). I'm not sure if the GUI actually supports Access forms. They also provide an ODBC driver, which is what OpenOffice is making use of, so any ODBC aware front-end should be able to read the data, if not use the forms. See http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ and for more details. Worst comes to worst, have you considered using Win4Lin, saves on the re-booting at any rate. John.
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