RE: DATABASE on RH

["Steven E. Frazier" <sfrazier futurenet net>]

John,

Does that mean that you could have a .mdb file sitting on a linux box say
under samba and
NT/95 boxes running Access could access the file?

Can it also be accessed from a web server running on linux?

Thanks.

Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jayell mail redhat com [mailto:jayell mail redhat com]On Behalf Of
> John Lewis
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 6:43 PM
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: DATABASE on RH
>
>
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 VINU cedbom ilbom ernet in wrote:
> > >Any good shareware/freeware foxpro type database programme?
> > >Where can I download it from?
> >
> Have you looked at StarOffice. It has a M$Access clone as part of
> the package. I
> succesfully copied and ran a simple database normally running on
> our Win machine
> to see if SO could be used as an alternative.
>
> I found it less than obvious how to set a database up from
> scratch (at least in
> SO40, haven't tried in SO50 yet) and I haven't tried setting it
> up to print
> mailing labels which I would need to do if it was to replace the windross
> database.
>
>
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