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

       The mdb-ver utility was written by Brian Bruns.

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                                   05 January 2025                                      mdb-ver(1)

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).

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)

mdb-ver first appeared in MDB Tools 0.4.

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

       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. Newer version are very much like Jet4.

-M,--version
              Print the version of mdbtools (rather than the MDB file) and exit.

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mdb-verdatabasemdb-ver-h|--helpmdb-ver-M|--version