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 'JET3' for those files produced in Access 97 format, 'JET4'
       for those produced by Access 2000, XP and 2003, 'ACE12' for those produced by Access 2007, or 'ACE14' for
       those produced by Access 2010.

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. Newer version are very much like Jet4.

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:

              •  use_index

              •  no_memo

              •  debug_like

              •  debug_write

              •  debug_usage

              •  debug_ole

              •  debug_row

              •  debug_props

              •  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).