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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:41:52
Message-Id: 20080903224143.GA26420@crowfix.com
1 I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying
2 to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or
3 at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing
4 of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I
5 guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that.
6
7 Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something
8 useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly
9 is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete
10 with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to
11 deal with that.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb) Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb) "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>