Access 2

[Alan T]

Is there a way I can open a Access 2 database file under Access 2003?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Not directly, You can convert it to Access 95, 97, and possibly even 2000,
and then either open it or convert in in 2003.

 

[John Vinson]

Is there a way I can open a Access 2 database file under Access 2003?

You'll need to download the Access 2.0 Conversion Utility:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830271/en-us

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

You'll need to download the Access 2.0 Conversion Utility:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830271/en-us

Good call, I'd forgotten about that utility.

 

[Alan T]

Yes, it works.
However, when I convert a Access 2 application it tells me I need to change
the code to call 32 bits DLL.

Actually I am not sure what 16 bit DLL are running in the this Access
database file. Any way I can figue that out?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Open any module, and do a global search for the keyword "Declare" (i.e:
Ctrl-F, and set Search to "Current Database")

For each hit of Declare, check the name of the Function or Sub being
declared.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

IIRC, there was a dll, named thunk.dll that did the conversion when running
16 bit dll's on 32 bit machines. I know this dll exists on all Windows 98
machines, and it may exist on some others as well. If you can't do an
intermediate conversion, follow Doug's recommendation and hunt down the
Declare statements and find the api's dll's you need.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
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[Douglas J. Steele]

My recollection is that thunking let you run 16 bit applications under 32
bit operating systems: you'd be able to run Access 2 (using 16 bit API
calls) under Windows 95 or newer.

I believe 32 bit versions of Access (Access 95 and newer) all require that
you convert the API calls to their 32 bit equivalents.

There's a section about convert Access 2.0 to newer versions at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HP051864031033.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210115 also looks good.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no private e-mails, please)