[plug] database query

[Jeremy Malcolm]

> Certainly they can, but (correct me if I'm  wrong) not with the Access
> database as-is.  They'll need to convert it to another format and probably to
> write a bit of code to access it  from the web server.

It could be used as-is.  You'd need an ODBC driver for Linux (of which
there are at least two, UnixOBDC and iOBDC; see
http://www.jepstone.net/FreeODBC).  This will enable your Linux database
application (written eg. in Perl using its DBI module) to talk to your
Access database over the network.

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