Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: Usage of GNU-med for TCM

[Busser, Jim]

On 2012-03-03, at 9:57 AM, Axel Wachtler wrote:

> I found an creative commons licensed herb database in german, which is 
> unfortunately distributed as 40MB M$ Access Database. Not shure if this
> can be somehow opened with LibreOffice.

Apparently only under the Microsoft Windows OS

        http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=25300

A person who is using Windows, if they have Access, can export to dBase (*.dbf) 
or if they do not have Access can alternately use some free Windows programs to 
open .MDB files

        http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=115581

A free software on *nix can read .MDB but there is a risk of data loss

        http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/

        
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=25300#p160459

        
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-- Jim