Re: How to import Informix into MS Access?

Posted in 1996

Chris Drauch — 3 Jun 1996 03:43:08 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Mike Segel wrote > >Andrew Holme wrote: >> >> We have some Informix 4.1.0 files (DAT and IDX extensions). We need to >> convert them to MS Access format but have no Informix software at all. >> We bought an ODBC driver but could not use it because it needed to talk >> to a back-end server. Does anybody know if there is anything out there >> which can read/convert the files? > >Sounds like you got the database but don't own informix. C-ISAM? There is no database you have to own ... just the runtime license. >To convert you need to write a simple C program and have >knowlege of the DBSCHEMA. Isn't so simple. How to convert data types like dec/date etc without the C-ISAM developer kit? -- Chris Drauch ...................................................................... . c/o DRAUCH Ges.m.b.H. Tel. 43/ 3135/46387-0 . . Gewerbestrasse 5 Fax 43/ 3135/4638728 . . A-8071 Hausmannstaetten EMail cdr@xteam.co.at . ......................................................................