Re: Importing tab-delimited text files or connecting to ODBC

[Maks Romih]

"Eric Pement" <pemente@northpark.edu> writes:

> Maks Romih wrote:
> 
> > [...] I want to have some tool to connect to or import from other data
> > sources, especially relational DBMS-es, excel, MS Access, etc.
> 
> I think the difficulty with your search being fulfilled is that you are
> hoping to have Emacs, which is GNU-founded "free software", find a way
> to import data structures created by proprietary, non-free software. I
> suggest that there could be a philosophical hesitation for some people
> in getting free software to support commercial, non-free software. I
> think we're lucky to get GNU Emacs available for WinNT!
> 
> -- 
> Eric Pement

I'm exploring these possibilities exactly because I'm not satisfied
with "non-free software".

Maks.