Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:42:35
Message-Id: 1220499741.3525.38.camel@bunyip.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb) by felix@crowfix.com
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6 On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:41 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
7 > I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying
8 > to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or
9 > at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing
10 > of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I
11 > guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that.
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13 > Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something
14 > useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly
15 > is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete
16 > with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to
17 > deal with that.
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