Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Feb 8 12:25:27 CST 2014
Hi Arthur: You can always install MS Access on your Linux box using Wine. I have found you have to move some of the DLLs around as Access will get confused...ofcourse it depends the version you are installing. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=12 Sometimes you have to shuffle things around but some quick tests I have done have worked quite well...most of my new learning and development work centers around web based options. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:04:33 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Question about Podcasts Thanks, Jim. Most often when I'm at my computer I'm running Ubuntu as a VirtualBox VM and Win 8.1 as the main system, so I take either suggested path. I think that I'll try both and see which I prefer. I shall also have a look at your link to the Base Handbook. As it happens, I'm doing an app on a volunteer basis, and at the same time trying to convert the non-profit client from WinXP to Linux, and so far the missing piece has been a replacement for Access. I'll have a look at your link and see if it's up to scratch (I've written a couple of apps for the organazation, for free, and used Access RunTime to deploy them. In Access I seldom if ever use macros but maybe I can get past that, and port/deploy them to Base instead. That would be truly ideal. IMO, the less a non-profit depends on MS, the better off they'll be. Arthur On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Arthur: > > Are we talking Windows or Linux? > > On Linux I like listening to podcast, music and radio stations via a > application called Banshee (there may be a Windows version I just have > never looked). Of course there is always iTunes that runs on everything. > > PS Just happen to be looking at the results of importing MS Access into > LibreOffice Base...no programs other than macros but not bad. > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e8/BH40-BaseHandbook.pdf > > Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com