SPUG:Filemaker Pro access from perl?

[Aaron Salo]

At 03:33 PM 3/5/2003 -0800, Brian Hatch wrote:
>Has anyone here attempted to access a filemaker pro database
>from perl?  There isn't a DBI module for it, but there seems
>to be an inkling that accessing it via ODBC might work.

yes, you can use DBD::ODBC to do it (I've done it but the connection was
pre-existing so I can't offer any help as far as BTDT on setting up the
connection). 

I presume your friend is using FMPro on a mac rather than win32 version.
your friends mac box will need to have (forgive my obviousness for
mentioning this) an ODBC driver manager and the ODBC drivers for FMPro. 

I've not tried this with OSX but this might be helpful to you, if you can
get some mileage out of this I hope it helps.

ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/MacODBC.sit.hqx 

MacODBC

Summary:  MacODBC is the standard way for 
developers to write MacOS-based applications 
that communicate to databases using the Open 
DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) standard.  
This folder contains the software development 
kit for MacODBC version 2.1.2 GM.  

Features:
Cross-platform remote database access
Wide range of third party drivers
All major relational databases covered
Many Mac OS databases also supported 
(Butler from Everyware Corp. , dTF from 
theta group and many more )

good luck
~!aaron