Access Database on Linux

[Rashkae]

Rashkae wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>> Isn't Mickeysoft Access a pay for play situation? I'm not able to buy
>>> much in the way of software, but I do have Windows XP Home on dual boot
>>> if there are any free Access clones available.
>> Yes, pay for play, what else would you expect from Microsoft? I have never 
>> heard of Access clones, so you can decide to either buy MS Access or get 
>> another hosting package.
>>
> 
> Well, possible,,, I've never really tried this, so YMMV.
> 
> An Access data file can be plugged into the system as an odbc data
> source.  (run odbcad32admin in Windows XP).  I think you need an access
> file to start with, so maybe someone can send you an empty file?  You
> should then be able to manipulate that database with any Windows ODBC
> database program (can Open Office Base do this?)
> 
> But really, I can't see how this roundabout nonsense can be of any use
> to anyone for web hosting.
> 

After all that, I just saw on this a few posts above this one about
patches to a package called mdbtools.  I haven't looked at it, but my
spider sense is tingling, this is perhaps what the OP was looking for.