Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 14:12 +0100, Tony Sumner wrote:
> On May 09, 2012, Dan Lewis wrote:
>
> > Likely, the first
> > person has the version that should be used in a Windows OS, and the
> > second person has the version that should be used in a Linux OS. 
>
> Oh, come on. It is obvious which version is which and I had the
> Windows one.  The instructions for creating the driver are very simple
> and clear and I followed them. When it said driver not found it meant 
> diving into the depts of Windows which I am reluctant to do. 
>
> Fernand says that the native driver does work for Windows XP. So I must
> have looked at some out of date documentation that said otherwise. 
> In that connection, Heinrich, I am sure I saw something to the effect that
> if you are using Linux you should use JDBC and not ODBC. Can't find it
> now though. 
>
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions as to what I can do now to get
> it working but I don't need to do anything do I, just learn how to get
> the best out of OOo Base. Like importing data from a CSV file which is
> much more complicated than it need be. 
Hi Tony

Alexandro is giving you some very good intelligence Tony, you would pay attention.

//drew



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