[[...]] [[... Jet ...]] "MDB Tools is a package of libraries and utilities that allow Unix-like systems to natively read Microsoft Access database (MDB) files." http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/ A simple way to interact with Access is via [CSV] files (see also the links there) - plain text files with comma-separet values (in German locale, Access does not allow to use commas though, because it is considered decimal separator, so use semicolons instead; Excel accepts commas though... ([RS]) [Tclodbc] "Jet" is Access's persistence back-end, and the aspect of Access most likely to interest Tcl developers immediately. Win* has bundled Jet for several years now--write a Jet-dependent application, and it should work fine on any Win* host (since Win95?).