This is mdbtools version 0.002 This software is very, very pre-pre-pre-alpha (did I make my point?), so unless you know C and probably a little something about databases and reverse engineering file formats, you're welcome to try it out but don't expect much if anything to work. For the rest of you, read the HACKERS file for a description of where the code stands and what has been gleened of the file format. The initial goal of these tools is to be able to extract data structures and data from mdb files. This goal may of course expand over time as the file format becomes more well understood (if it ever does). To install type 'make' in the src directory and hope it works :-) This will build three executables: mdb-dump -- a simple hex dump utility that I've been using to look at mdb files prcat -- print the catalog table from an mdb file, prkkd -- prints some info about design view data given the offset to it. prtable -- prints some info about a table definition. prdata -- prints a dump of the data given a table name. Check out http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net for CVS, mailing list and similar. Brian Bruns camber@ais.org