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by 0xDEADFED5 900 days ago
oh god, that sounds like a painful thing to try to do. there's an Access redistributable at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=549...

i've never attempted JS interop, so i don't know how much it sucks, but it definitely seems doable. it'll likely be an adventure on it's own, but it's gotta be 1000x less fuckery than trying to reverse the binary format of Access

the saner option would probably just be a small .Net program that creates an endpoint for your JS

unless i'm assuming too much, and you're just doing it for sheer masochistic pleasure, and in that case: i salute you

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Yes, it is extremely painful. Thanks for the link, that may come in useful. But in general, the reason that I didn't use the Access redistributable is because I am building a Low Code system that I want to be able to import the Access database files that can work on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
I remember taking a look at mdbtools and not using it... can't remember why now, but I'll take another look. Thanks!