Things to Do ------------ . 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 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).