NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       mdb-ver database
       mdb-ver -h|--help
       mdb-ver -M|--version

DESCRIPTION

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

       It  will  return  a  single  line of output corresponding to the program that produced the
       file: 'JET3' (for files produced by Access 97), 'JET4' (Access 2000, XP and 2003), 'ACE12'
       (Access 2007), 'ACE14' (Access 2010), 'ACE15' (Access 2013), or 'ACE16' (Access 2016).

OPTIONS

       -M, --version
              Print the version of mdbtools (rather than the MDB file) and exit.

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
              Colon-separated list of options:

              •  debug_like

              •  debug_write

              •  debug_usage

              •  debug_ole

              •  debug_row

              •  debug_props

              •  debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options

              •  no_memo (deprecated; has no effect)

              •  use_index (experimental; requires libmswstr)

HISTORY

       mdb-ver first appeared in MDB Tools 0.4.

SEE ALSO

       mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-header(1)  mdb-hexdump(1)  mdb-import(1)  mdb-
       json(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-queries(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-sql(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).