Re: Reading .mdb databases on MacOSX

FROM : Chris Hanson
DATE : Fri Nov 29 17:57:00 2002

At 11:26 AM +0100 11/28/02, Alexander Lamb wrote:
>Is there a way to read directly mdb files (Access) on MacOSX (even
>programatically), or do I need to use Access on Windows to export the data
>into a readable format such as text files?
>I know I could setup probably an ODBC datasource on Windows, but what is I
>want to do it directly on MacOSX?


You might be able to use mdbtools to read your Access files.

It's at <http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/>.  I haven't even tried to
compile it on Mac OS X yet, but it might be worth a shot...

  -- Chris

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