Invisible wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
> 
>> There are a bunch of options to open a .mdb without MS Access.
>>
>> MS Access just gives you a pretty front end - it can be useful in 
>> creating a new database and tables, but isn't required.  In fact, I 
>> have not used MS Access in several years, tho just about all of our 
>> data is in .mdb files.
>>
>>
>> I personally stay from ODBC because it requires a setup on each computer.
> 
> My goal isn't to access an MDB file; my goal is to use an MDB file to 
> test whether my ODBC program works correctly. ;-)
> 
>  From the other responses, it looks like it should be feasible to do 
> this. Time to start playing, I think...

That's one of the nice things about ODBC - you can repoint it without 
having to modify code that uses it.

It's been almost 10 years since I last used ODBC - sorry, not  much help 
there.


Tom

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