You can export your (friend's) Access tables to comma delimited/separated
files and use the DBD::CSV module to use it.
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> From: Kris G Findlay[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:55 PM
> To: Beginners-Cgi
> Subject: RE: MS Access DB
>
> ok thats what i though !!
>
> would it be possible to convert the ms access db to somthing else ?
>
> thing is i have a friend .. who is using access db. he wants the info
> stored
> in it to be acess on-line
> to form part of customer services eg product details and rpair ststus ..
> etc
> ...
> as i said all the data is in an access db .. if i could convert it to
> something else would be fine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Risser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 18 June 2001 17:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MS Access DB
>
>
> On Monday 18 June 2001 09:22 am, you wrote:
> > i was wondering is it possible to use a MS Access Db on a linux server
> eg
> > my host webfusion !?
> > and if yes what modules would i need ??
> >
> > cheers in advance !!
> > [-----------------------]
> > Kris G Findlay
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [-----------------------]
>
> You can't run the MS Access DB on Linux, you have to have it on a Windows
> box, or possibly a Mac.
>
> You can, as far as I know, access it from a Linux Web Server though. You
> need
> the DBI module and DBD::ODBC module to communicate to the DB.
>
