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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> > </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>From:</STRONG>
centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Nigel Kendrick<BR><SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> <FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000000>></FONT> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>Sent:</STRONG> Friday, June
20, 2008 9:25 AM<BR><SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> <FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000000>></FONT> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>To:</STRONG> 'CentOS
mailing list'<BR><SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> <FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000000>></FONT> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>Subject:</STRONG> [CentOS]
mdbtools on CentOS<BR><SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> > </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=216425413-20062008><FONT
color=#0000ff> > </FONT></SPAN>Morning
everyone,</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=216425413-20062008><FONT color=#0000ff>> </FONT></SPAN>I was hoping to
use mdbtools to extract data from some Access databases overnight. I have yum
installed the tools from Dag and also downloaded and (eventually!) compiled
the latest<SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=216425413-20062008><FONT color=#0000ff>> </FONT></SPAN>release from the
mdbtools web site, but I either get 'buffer overflow' errors or no output from
most of the tools. I have been trying to cvs checkout the latest development
version but <SPAN class=216425413-20062008><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=216425413-20062008><FONT color=#0000ff>> </FONT></SPAN>sourceforge's
cvs login keeps timing out.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=216425413-20062008><FONT
color=#0000ff>[Snip]</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008>OK - managed to login to CVS at last and
download the latest development version.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008>A straight configure/make created tools
that ran, but generated no output. I re-did the configure with some suggested
options (below) and it works!!! </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008>./configure --enable-sql
--with-unixodbc=/usr/local</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008>It seems these options are needed even
though I am accessing the mdb file directly off disk and not via odbc or
SQL</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=369201708-20062008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=216425413-20062008>Thanks to all who were just about to chip
in with suggestions ;-)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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