access

[Brad Hards]

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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:36, James McNeill wrote:
> hi all.
> I was discussing with someone recently about moving their small office
> over to Linux. The one thing that stands in the way is a database they
> use written in MS Access. Short of rewriting the whole thing, is there
> any way for them to get at this database from Linux?
There is an app called "mdbtools" on sourceforge 
(http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/)  that can probably provide at least the 
data. People tend to write fancy GUIs on the front of access, and I doubt 
that they will get that.
However if they wrote it themselves, a competent db programmer can probably 
export the data to a real database (eg PostgreSQL) and whip up a front end 
(maybe web-based?) in a couple of days. Hell, if they trusted access, even 
mysql would likely do.
I personally couldn't do that in a few days, but presumably someone on this 
list could.

> has anyone had any luck running access runtime under Wine or another emu?
Codeweavers say 
(http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/the_real_dirt.php):
Access is buggy, but we haven't explored it carefully.

So that might take a lot more work. Plus it is probably now a license 
infringement to run the runtime on anything except windows.

Brad
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