Re: Have you had a look yet?

[runrig]

We've determined through the CB that he wants to access the data from gzipped files on Unix. DBI won't help, you'd need something like Parse::Access which doesn't AFAIK exist yet.

Any reason why you can't get the files to a PC with Access on it, then use DBI/DBD::ODBC or Win32::ODBC? Or export the data to a delimited or other format? Maybe even write a script to unzip the files and Net::FTP them to a Windoze box with Access on it? Automate any necessary commands on the Windoze box with Net::Telnet or maybe Expect (I've never used Net::Telnet, but it looks like if you use it you don't need Expect...)?

[repson]

As I recall you don't actually need access installed to use *.mdb files. I _think_ I recall someone saying they had used DBD::ODBC to read those files under a unix system. However you may (or may not, try it) need an ODBC driver, but there is supposedly (according to the docs), a ODBC driver included with the DBD::ODBC source. Otherwise there are links to other cross-platform ODBC drivers in those docs.