At 19:10 23/05/2004, Michael Thompson wrote:
>Openoffice can connect to a nuber of different databases and can use a
>simple file based databases like dBase. You can create forms for entering
>information to the database, create documents that read information from
>the database and perform tasks like mail merges.
>>It runs on both Windows and Linux.
>>Having said that I have had some trouble getting it to talk to a MySQL server.
>>Michael
After a further search have come across this
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=337
1/2 way down page.
Links to a pdf which shows how to use OO.o with F.B.SQL
I presume not much modification is needed to get it going Linux style.
Frank
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