From: tismer at appliedbiometrics.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:57:03 GMT
Subject: Read MS Access 97 *.mdb files with python??
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"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
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> For the file format try:
> 
>         http://www.wotsit.org/
> 
> Don't know whether they list it, but if they don't it's likely
> that it's not published anywhere.

Just a note:

They give info about the .ldb format which is ridiculous,
just the format of the locking files, half an hour of
work to find out. The .mdb format is to my knowledge
documented nowhere. I know of exactly two companies
in the world which have tracked down this format to
an extreme extent, and who are able to recover a broken
database file. I once tried this for myself, but this
needs hundreds of hours, creating thousands of databases,
modifying data and comparing files.

ciao - chris

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