mdb-ver(1) Executable programs or shell commands mdb-ver(1) 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 sup- ports 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). MDBTools 1.0.1 27 August 2026 mdb-ver(1)
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