<p>with the help of <a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/">evan</a>, i've got <a href="http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/">mdb-tools</a> installed on the lappy. mdb-tools gives you a set of utils to do things with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access">Access databases</a>, in my case that means getting the schema and data exported to some nice sql to move it into <a href="http://mysql.com/">MySql</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">postgres</a>. The utils it installs are:</p>

<ul>
  <li>mdb-array</li>
  <li>mdb-export</li>
  <li>mdb-header</li>
  <li>mdb-hexdump</li>
  <li>mdb-import</li>
  <li>mdb-parsecsv</li>
  <li>mdb-prop</li>
  <li>mdb-schema</li>
  <li>mdb-sql</li>
  <li>mdb-tables</li>
  <li>mdb-ver</li>
</ul>

<p>mdb-ver gives me the version of the db in question: JET4.</p>

<p>mdb-hexdump works. i guess. but i don't really know what to do with a fuck ton of hex data.</p>

<p>all the rest just give me a "bus error".</p>

<p>i have no idea where to go from here or what the error really means for me. mdb-tools development seems to be pretty dead in the water. so i don't know what to do next. i would like to be able to get at that data, though.</p>

<p>help me, lazyweb. help me.</p>