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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:44:57
Message-Id: 48BF1384.3070501@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb) by felix@crowfix.com
1 felix@×××××××.com schrieb am 04.09.2008 00:41:
2 > I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying
3 > to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or
4 > at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing
5 > of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I
6 > guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that.
7 >
8 > Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something
9 > useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly
10 > is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete
11 > with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to
12 > deal with that.
13 >
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16 app-office/mdbtools http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ ??
17
18 Regards,
19
20 Daniel

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