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diff --git a/office/mdbtools/README b/office/mdbtools/README index bd31d8cd3b..cf89f99119 100644 --- a/office/mdbtools/README +++ b/office/mdbtools/README @@ -1,4 +1,15 @@ -The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format -used in Microsoft's Access database package, and to provide a set -of tools and applications to make that data available on other +The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB and ACCDB file +formats used in Microsoft's Access database packages, and to provide +a set of tools and applications to make that data available on other platforms. + +NOTE: unixOBDC is an optional dependency. +By default the script will build a driver for use with unixODBC, +if it is installed. If a driver for iodbc is preferred instead +you may set the environment variable UNIXODBC_DRIVER to "no". e.g. + UNIXODBC_DRIVER="no" ./mdbtools.SlackBuild + +This script includes the debugging tools 'prcat', 'prkkd', 'prtable', +'prdata' and 'prole', preffixed with "mdb-" (e.g. 'mdb-prtable') +unless the environment varaible DEBUGGING_TOOLS is set to "no". e.g. + DEBUGGING_TOOLS="no" ./mdbtools.SlackBuild |