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Re: Inventories
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:00:27 GMT
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:20:26 GMT, "Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc>
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> Since Access is part of MS-Office, it will run on both the WinTel and Mac
> systems. It is not just for NT. Besides, if people aren't running either of
> those systems, what are they running? Linux or Unix? If they are, they would
> most likely be savvy enough to write their own front end to the Jet database.
> Also, with the runtime version, Windows/Mac users would not have to have
> Access. The file would be an executable program.
Is MacOffice still a viable thing? Especially MacAccess -- since the
Access file format changes with each release, and there is no cross-version
compatibility (only backwards compatibility--newer releases. of Access can
read (and sometimes update) files in old formats).
Has Jet been ported to Linux? Without the Jet engine, nobody in Linux is
going to do anything, unless the Access file format has been published.
Steve
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| (...) Supposedly Office 2000 fixes or addresses this issue. It allows you to save a file in older versions. The problem you run into is that whenever a new feature is added into a program, it requires that the file format be modified to accept the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Problem is that I have no time to go through the learning curve for perl to set it up in that. I know Access. (...) Since Access is part of MS-Office, it will run on both the WinTel and Mac systems. It is not just for NT. Besides, if people (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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