I think you are out of luck in regard to accessing an MS Access database from the Mac, however you can get a precompiled version of the DBI modules for the Mac at http://pudge.net/cgi-bin/mmp.plx. The last time I checked, you could only use DBD::Proxy and possibly DBD::CSV with on the Mac. In order to manipulate MS Access databases, you will need DBD::ODBC and an ODBC driver. I don't believe either is available under the MacOS.

If you are feeling adventurous and have a a networked PC lying around, you could set up a proxy server on the PC and connect to it from the Mac. There is an article on setting up DBI::Proxy for use with Sybase and a mac at http://pudge.net/macperl/dbi-dbd-proxy.html.

Your best bet in this case would be to export the data into a format that the Mac handles a little better such as CSV (check out Text::xSV for an elegant, pure perl CSV module) or even MS Excel.

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Coyote

In reply to Re: Building and Using Modules on a Mac by Coyote
in thread Building and Using Modules on a Mac by Donesh

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