patches from Karl and Carl

README

@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@
-This is mdbtools version 0.002
+This is mdbtools version 0.01
 
-This software is very, very pre-pre-pre-alpha (did I make my point?), so
-unless you know C and probably a little something about databases and reverse
-engineering file formats, you're welcome to try it out but don't expect much if anything to work.
+This software is very pre-alpha, so don't expect to much unless you know C and 
+probably a little something about databases and reverse engineering file 
+formats, you're welcome to try it out but don't expect much if anything to work.
 
 For the rest of you, read the HACKERS file for a description of where the code 
 stands and what has been gleened of the file format.
 
 The initial goal of these tools is to be able to extract data structures and 
-data from mdb files.  This goal may of course expand over time as the file 
-format becomes more well understood (if it ever does).
+data from mdb files.  This goal will of course expand over time as the file 
+format becomes more well understood.  Also in the plans is a Gtk+ browser for 
+MDB files and a ODBC/SQL frontend.
 
 To install type 'make' in the src directory and hope it works :-)
 
-This will build three executables:
+This will build some useful utilities:
 
-mdb-dump  -- a simple hex dump utility that I've been using to look at mdb files
-prcat     -- print the catalog table from an mdb file,
-prkkd     -- prints some info about design view data given the offset to it.
-prtable   -- prints some info about a table definition.
-prdata    -- prints a dump of the data given a table name.
+mdb-dump   -- simple hex dump utility that I've been using to look at mdb files
+mdb-schema -- prints DDL for the specified table
+mdb-export -- export table to CSV format
+
+And some utilities useful for debugging:
+
+prcat      -- prints the catalog table from an mdb file,
+prkkd      -- dump of information about design view data given the offset to it.
+prtable    -- dump of a table definition.
+prdata     -- dump of the data given a table name.
 
 
 Check out http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net for CVS, mailing list and similar.

TODO

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 Things to Do
 ------------
 
-. Implement code for reading data rows
-. Complete list of datatypes
-. Figure out how to properly determine fixed of variable length columns
+. Complete the list of datatypes
+. Figure out how to properly determine fixed or variable length columns
 . Figure out how NULLs are stored in data rows
-. Figure out what happens for varchar columns > 256
-. Write schema-export utility supporting different backend databases
-. Write data-export utility supporting different backend databases
+. Figure out what happens for varchar columns starting at > 256
+. Modify mdb-schema utility support different backend databases
+. Modify mdb-export to handle different delimiters/options
 . Get autoconf working
+. Check out text file unixODBC driver to see if it can be adapted to use
+  libmdb (it already has a SQL parser).

src/include/mdbtools.h

@@ -49,11 +49,17 @@ enum {
 };
 enum {
 	MDB_BOOL = 0x01,
+	MDB_BYTE = 0x02,
 	MDB_INT = 0x03,
 	MDB_LONGINT = 0x04,
+	MDB_MONEY = 0x05,
+	MDB_FLOAT = 0x06,
+	MDB_DOUBLE = 0x07,
 	MDB_SDATETIME = 0x08,
 	MDB_TEXT = 0x0a,
-	MDB_HYPERLINK = 0x0c
+	MDB_OLE = 0x0b,
+	MDB_MEMO = 0x0c,
+	MDB_REPID = 0x0f
 };
 
 typedef struct {
@@ -134,6 +140,6 @@ extern char *mdb_col_to_string(MdbHandle *mdb, int start, int datatype, int size
 
 
 /* dump.c */
-void buffer_dump(const char* buf, int start, int end);
+void buffer_dump(const unsigned char* buf, int start, int end);
 
 #endif /* _mdbtools_h_ */

src/libmdb/table.c

@@ -28,21 +28,24 @@ char *mdb_get_coltype_string(int col_type)
 ** its own mapping.
 */
 static char *type_name[] = {"Unknown 0x00",
-                        "Unknown 0x01",
-                        "Unknown 0x02",
+                        "Boolean",
+                        "Byte",
                         "Integer",
                         "Long Integer",
-                        "Unknown 0x05",
-                        "Unknown 0x06",
-                        "Unknown 0x07",
+                        "Currency",
+                        "Single",
+                        "Double",
                         "DateTime (Short)",
                         "Unknown 0x09",
-                        "Varchar",
-                        "Unknown 0x0b"
-                        "Hyperlink"
+                        "Text",
+                        "OLE",
+                        "Memo/Hyperlink",
+                        "Unknown 0x0d",
+                        "Unknown 0x0e",
+			"Replication ID"
                 };
 
-        if (col_type > 11) {
+        if (col_type > 0x0f) {
                 return NULL;
         } else {
                 return type_name[col_type];