From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] .mdb access in OCaml
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:06:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408250206.i7P26SR0002390@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:45:03 EDT." <200408052145.i75Lj3I3019675@w20-575-49.mit.edu>
Since the exchange quoted below I have written an OCaml tool to read
.mdb files. (The mdbtools maintainer says he has fixed the mdb-export
crash too.) It is not in a releasable state yet, but anybody who is
interested an an incomplete package can contact me directly.
> > > There is a C package, "mdbtools", that will provide a starting point
> > > if nothing exists in ocaml.
> >
> > I tend to do Unix.open_process_in "mdb-export foo.mdb bar" and hope that there
> > are no memo fields with embedded newlines, which would require a slightly more
> > elaborate parser then input_line.
>
> mdb-export core dumped the first time I ran it on the file. Proximate
> cause is writing past the end of an array but the real problem is lack
> of sanity checking input data. I guess I'll have to do it the hard way.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 16:15 John Carr
2004-08-04 23:15 ` [Caml-list] automatic documentation of ocamlyacc grammars shaddin
2004-08-05 17:23 ` Brock
2004-09-02 14:40 ` Hendrik Tews
2004-08-05 7:01 ` [Caml-list] .mdb access in OCaml Florian Hars
2004-08-05 21:45 ` John Carr
2004-08-25 2:06 ` John Carr [this message]
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