From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 10:49:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.sector14.net (66-61-170-163.mtc2.cox.rr.com [66.61.170.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D514937B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.sector14.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07InAE02731 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:49:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:49:10 -0500 From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Good DBF/MDX interface for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020107134910.C993@kirk.sector14.net> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Bartimaeus Group 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 I want a way to access a lot of DBF/DBT/MDX files from FreeBSD. Write access would be good, but read-only access would probably be ok as well. I wish to build command-line and/or web-based interfaces to a few databases which reside on Windows boxen; I access the files via smbfs. I know Perl, and I've seen a DBF add-on for Perl; but I was not convinced of its stability (admittedly I only read about it though). I also don't know how much trouble I'm asking for trying to share Windows database files with active Windows workstations which use another program to access them. Suggestions/recommendations welcome. -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "All these years, the people said, 'He's acting like a kid.' He did not know he could not fly, so he did." --Guy Clark, "The Cape" (Dublin Blues) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message