From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 15:51:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.host4u.net (gaia.host4u.net [209.150.128.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EC637B405 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from andre (bricks.fastdns.net [216.71.43.117]) by gaia.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA31627; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:17:47 -0600 Message-ID: <0b5b01c19e1f$1aae7460$a50410ac@olmct.net> Reply-To: "Andre` Niel Cameron" From: "Andre` Niel Cameron" To: "Brian Sobolak" Cc: References: <0a0d01c19e01$95d1e000$a50410ac@olmct.net> <5150328248.20020115142003@mindspring.com> <0b4b01c19e18$f5ffa4a0$a50410ac@olmct.net> <11354352584.20020115152707@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Re[2]: DSN Questions Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:48:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The developer is using ASP(Chilisoft) and he wants to interact with an Access DB but can not. My network admin said it was not possible, I thought it was so I decided to check on the list. You are the only response:) The article you sent was informative but not really MS Access specific. I neeed some way to A)Prove you can use an Access DB and B)Have the info to start using the Access DB. Any ideas? Regards, André C. Technical Support Ô¿Ô¬ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Visit our support manual at http://supportmanual.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Sobolak" To: "Andre` Niel Cameron" Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re[2]: DSN Questions > hi > > Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 3:04:17 PM, you wrote: > > ANC> The network admin says it wont work;) Are you sure it would? Any place you > ANC> can point me to look it up? > > Some more specifics on what you're trying to do could allow me to give > you more specific pointers. > > Here's a decent article on the topic: > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=206/byt19991104s0001/index2.htm > > More generally, it really depends upon the specific setup you're > trying to use. For example, if you're using Python, Perl, PHP, etc. > they all have different ways of getting at the data, not to mention > specific modules which will probably talk to myODBC. > > As a kludge, depending upon how often the data in the AccessDB is > updated, you might just try dumping it to a CSV file and push it over > to your unix host nightly. Unix (as I'm sure you know) has tools > galore for handling CSV files... > > Finally, Access can operate on the data as a CSV file, so you might be > able to store them on windows as CSV and just use Samba to get at > them. > > brian > > > -- > Got work? http://www.planetshwoop.com/resume/ > This is how I think: http://www.planetshwoop.com/blog/ > Brian Sobolak sobolak@mindspring.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message