[OT] - RE: [oclug]MS Access clone

[Shad Young]

Bill, while making some valid points, does not however speak for all of
us. Some of us do not mind MS related questions because MS is
inextricably tied to computing and Linux is about computing and OCLUG is
about learning it.

We also know that there are times when a person will ask questions prior
to doing research simply to get pointers to documentation on the topic
of interest as often they have no idea where to start - particularly -
if they are migrating from the well organized Windows world to the
seemingly chaotic and often arcane Linux world.

To answer your question, yes there are scripts available to convert MS
Access DB's to just about any format supported by Linux or other OSs.
Your best bet for an OO.org front end from my experience though is JDBC
or ODBC as converting to Dbase or delimited text will likely break most
of the DB if it is at all complex.

When it comes to scripts a good place to start is
http://www.devscripts.com/

Welcome to OCLUG.

Shad

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 07:58, Strosberg, Bill wrote:
> > From: Vytas Janusauskas [mailto:vytas at magma.ca]
> > Subject: Re: [oclug]MS Access clone
> > 
> > Are you aware of any software that can convert a Access 2000 
> > database table to either dBase or delimited ASCII format?
> 
> Vytas:
> 
> 1)	This is a Linux list, not a free .mdb file format Microsoft customer
> support list.  You are very welcome to ask Linux-related questions, and join
> into the discussions.
> 
> 2)	People on this list really appreciate you making the effort to
> research your questions BEFORE posting a question, not using us INSTEAD of
> doing your homework.    Every modern database in existence today has got
> facilities via query languages and sometimes simplified menu options to
> export data.  Your question has just been answered, even though you probably
> should have read your documentation and answered it yourself.
> 
> Welcome to OCLUG's list, but please refer to our netiquette pages on the web
> site before posting again.  Please note, that I marked your question [OT]
> which in 'net terms means OFF TOPIC!  Questions like your are not within the
> bounds of topical Linux discussion, therefore many of our members filter
> messages marked OT to /dev/null.
> 
> I hope you take this gentle reminder well, and feel welcome and wanted on
> our list.
> 
> --
> Bill Strosberg
> 
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