On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > > > > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. > > > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html > > postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz > > postgresql-doc: > > /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html > > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb > > $ apt-cache search mdb > > $ > > > > where's the *.mdb reader? > > > What does 'file' say about it? > I have this strange feeling it's a Microsoft Access "database". Not that > Access even acts like a database.
How do databases "act"? Databases "exist", Database Management Systems "act". -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>