>I'm with Barbara on this one. Seems like using odbc is, ahem, overkill IMO.
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>Double-click on the MDB, it opens in Access. Choose File/Export (kinda depends on the version, but, Access is nothin' if not friendly). If you need datasets and not just a group of records from one table, the it easy to use the query wizard to build what you need (v. similar to vfp) and output to a table...which, of course, you can then export to a dbf...
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>I hope I haven't misunderstood your situation..
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>>>Umm... Maybe I missed something that is obvious to the rest of you, but if these are ACCESS files can't you just open them with Access, copy what you need and exit again? Access copies nicely to TXT or DBF files.....
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You can even send the query directly to a DBF or ASCII file.