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NAME

       mdb-ver - Return the format of a given MDB database.

SYNOPSIS

       mdb-ver database
       mdb-ver -M

DESCRIPTION

       mdb-ver is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

       It  will  return  a  single  line of output with either 'JET3' for those files produced in Access 97 format or 'JET4' for those produced by
       Access 2000 and XP.

OPTIONS

       -M     Prints the version of MDB Tools itself instead of the MDB file.

NOTES

       Access changed its format between Jet 3 used in Access 97 and Jet 4 used for Access 2000 and XP. The nature of the changes included  moving
       the page size from 2K to 4K and added support for unicode. MDB Tools actively supports both formats.

ENVIRONMENT

       MDB_JET3_CHARSET
	      Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1).

       MDBICONV
	      Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.

       MDBOPTS
	      semi-column separated list of options:

	      o  use_index

	      o  no_memo

	      o  debug_like

	      o  debug_write

	      o  debug_usage

	      o  debug_ole

	      o  debug_row

	      o  debug_props

	      o  debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

HISTORY

       mdb-ver first appeared in MDB Tools 0.4.

SEE ALSO

       gmdb2(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-array(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-tables(1)

AUTHORS

       The mdb-ver utility was written by Brian Bruns.

BUGS

       mdb-ver does minimal checking on the validity of a file. It is possbile for it to misidentify a non-MDB file.

       mdb-ver does not recognize Access 2.0 (Jet 2) or the newer MSDE format files.

0.7								   13 July 2013 						       MDBTools(1)