1mdb-ver(1)           Executable programs or shell commands          mdb-ver(1)
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NAME

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

9       mdb-ver database
10       mdb-ver -h|--help
11       mdb-ver -M|--version
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DESCRIPTION

15       mdb-ver is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.
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17       It  will  return  a  single line of output corresponding to the program
18       that produced the file: 'JET3'  (for  files  produced  by  Access  97),
19       'JET4'  (Access 2000, XP and 2003), 'ACE12' (Access 2007), 'ACE14' (Ac‐
20       cess 2010), 'ACE15' (Access 2013), or 'ACE16' (Access 2016).
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OPTIONS

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

28       Access  changed  its  format  between Jet 3 used in Access 97 and Jet 4
29       used for Access 2000 and XP. The nature of the changes included  moving
30       the  page  size  from 2K to 4K and added support for unicode. MDB Tools
31       actively supports both formats. Newer version are very much like Jet4.
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ENVIRONMENT

34       MDB_JET3_CHARSET
35              Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file.  Default
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39              Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have
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42       MDBOPTS
43              Colon-separated list of options:
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57              •  debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options
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HISTORY

64       mdb-ver first appeared in MDB Tools 0.4.
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SEE ALSO

67       mdb-array(1) mdb-count(1)  mdb-export(1)  mdb-header(1)  mdb-hexdump(1)
68       mdb-import(1)  mdb-json(1)  mdb-parsecsv(1)  mdb-prop(1) mdb-queries(1)
69       mdb-schema(1) mdb-sql(1) mdb-tables(1)
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AUTHORS

72       The mdb-ver utility was written by Brian Bruns.
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BUGS

75       mdb-ver does minimal checking on the validity of a file. It is possbile
76       for it to misidentify a non-MDB file.
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78       mdb-ver does not recognize Access 2.0 (Jet 2).
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82MDBTools 0.9.3                   21 July 2022                       mdb-ver(1)
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