use of .mdb Access files on Mac computers

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Does anyone know how to handle Access files on a MAC system?
-1)to read them
-2)to transfer them to other formats
-3)to use them on mac (add/edit/delete information) and resend them to a PC?

Philip
MS Access developer
 
I am curious about this. What kind of data access methods or
software or database drivers do Mac computers have ??? I don't
have a clue, but occasionally I mess with some Mac systems.

I'm thinking if the file is on a PC system and the Mac has access
to it via networking, as TCP/IP is universal, all the Mac would
need in that case is a database driver.

Another thing I'm not familiar with is web-development systems
on Mac systems. I'm thinking that if you can extract data from a
webpage, the database could be set up and accessed via a web
page, but again it's going to depend upon database drivers or
what type of server is hosting the file.

Just throwing some ideas out and I'll be watching for other
comments. I'm totally ignorant on the subject. I'm just seeing the
theoretical views.

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Does anyone know how to handle Access files on a MAC system?
-1)to read them
-2)to transfer them to other formats
-3)to use them on mac (add/edit/delete information) and resend them to a PC?

Philip
MS Access developer
 
I am curious about this. What kind of data access methods or
software or database drivers do Mac computers have ??? I don't
have a clue, but occasionally I mess with some Mac systems.
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Some commonly used database programs on Macs are FileMaker Pro and 4th
Dimension (there are others, I'm not that familiar with the
environment).

Access JET databases (.mdb files) are very firmly embedded in the
Windows programming environment, and to my knowledge there is *no*
software available on Macs to use them; there certainly is not a Mac
version of Access, either production or runtime.

If the Access database resides on a web server and you have a
web-based (DAP for example) interface to it, then any web browser can
utilize it.
 
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