[Quantian-general] suggestion for new kitchen sink quantian

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Anne,

On 19 November 2005 at 10:32, Anne York wrote:
| Hi Dirk:
| 
| One suggestion I have for the version is mdb tools. This is 
| a piece of software that lets one view access databases, do 
| simple data base selections, produce a schema so that the 
| database can be converted to mysql, and export to various 
| formats. Harvey got it working on my quantian system and I 
| find it useful since most of my clients send me access 
| databases and I don't like to use MS windows.

Looks like we have'em already in Debian:

edd at basebud:~/mail$ apt-cache search mdbtools
libmdbtools - mdbtools libraries
mdbtools - JET / MS Access database (MDB) tools
mdbtools-dev - mdbtools development files
mdbtools-gmdb - JET / MS Access database (MDB) file viewer
openoffice.org-base - OpenOffice.org office suite - database

so that should be straightforward. Added to todo.{wml,html}. 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers, Dirk

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