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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       mdb-ver <database>

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.

HISTORY

       mdb-ver first appeared in MDB Tools 0.4

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.