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I'm stuck with Access 97 too.

You can use OLE to compact a database. Here's a fish:

use Win32::OLE;

# check your registry for which version DBEngine to use
my $dao = Win32::OLE->new('DAO.DBEngine.36', 'quit') or die "$!";
$dao->CompactDatabase('c:\\test.mdb', 'c:\\test2.mdb');

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Check the Access helpfile for available options

HTH!

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Re: Re: Compacting a MS-Access database from perl
by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2003 at 20:47 UTC
    That took care of it. Thank all you monks a ton for your input. I still had trouble finding decent doc on how OLE works and what methods/objects are available. Problem solved... Perl > all yet again :)
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