Re: Status of Write Support?

Murray Collingwood <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:14:22 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mdb-tools.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi guys

I agree with Alex.  Actually, I think this read-only ability may be part of
the plan to extract as much data out of Access as possible without the
ability to put it back.  Frankly, I think it's a good plan.  The sooner we
get rid of Access the better.

Cheers
mc


2009/10/23 Alexander Lehner <[email protected]>

>
> Hi Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADO,
>
> just wanted to let you know that I'm reading this mailing list for more
> than 1 year now and got about 2 or 3 posts so far.
> mdbtools development seems to be dead somehow; reading works for my usage,
> writing - I don't know.
> But I would not expect too much support for any further development.
> Pretty sad for a cool project...
>
> Alex.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADOC wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I finally resolved my CVS issues with this project and have the latest
> source compiled for OS X Snow Leopard.  I see that there is a write.c that
> apparently has at least some support for writing.
> >
> > I am new to this project, and noticed that there is very little
> documentation.  My questions are:
> >
> >
> >  *   What is the level of write support currently in the CVS tree?
> >  *   How do you use it? (preferably a code snippet)
> >  *   Are there any more detailed docs on the API design?
> >
> > My particular application is to convert multiple file formats to and from
> a particular MDB database format in a cross platform way.  For converting to
> this MDB format I do not require random access, nor SQL, nor anything else.
>  It would be nice to be able to create databases as well, but I can
> certainly place an empty database into a folder and just add the necessary
> table.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance,
> >
> > Dion
> >
>
>
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