From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric Pement" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Importing tab-delimited text files or connecting to ODBC Date: 17 Feb 2006 08:35:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1140194141.208572.236910@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <7ey80aj1fi.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140234505 22144 80.91.229.2 (18 Feb 2006 03:48:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 18 04:48:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAJ54-0004vh-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:48:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAJ52-0008B8-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:48:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.185.252.134 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1140194146 22711 127.0.0.1 (17 Feb 2006 16:35:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:35:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ftweb.moody.edu:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE5) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.185.252.134; posting-account=63lmNgwAAABqjm0XxoXi1UjvjQ6CohmC Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137639 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33264 Archived-At: Maks Romih wrote: > [...] I want to have some tool to connect to or import from other data > sources, especially relational DBMS-es, excel, MS Access, etc. I think the difficulty with your search being fulfilled is that you are hoping to have Emacs, which is GNU-founded "free software", find a way to import data structures created by proprietary, non-free software. I suggest that there could be a philosophical hesitation for some people in getting free software to support commercial, non-free software. I think we're lucky to get GNU Emacs available for WinNT! -- Eric Pement