Since I have little to no info on the matter, I can answer your question.

Yes, Sockets and ODBC can work together. Many times you may connect to your Database using Sockets.

As far as your problem, I'm affraid I can't give very good suggestions without more information.

• Perhaps your program can't find/get a connection to Access?
• Maybe the path to perl is wrong?

The possibilities are endless.

Be more specific and we can try and help you with your problem, perhaps you should post to 'SOPW'

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Casey