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Re: Opening a file that's inside a package

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isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <edtgr4FuaneU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-01-13, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>>> In article <1mzsb2f.ed7x0817ipo8wN%befr@eaglesoft.de>,
>>> befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What I have is an SQLite database in a "wrapper" (why, I don't know; 
>>>>> maybe to keep folks from poking around in it), and an open source SQLite
>>>>> browser. The Browser doesn't support the "drag the file into the window"
>>>>> model for opening, and I got tired of opening the wrapper and dragging
>>>>> the actual database file to the desktop so the "Open" dialog would see
>>>>> it.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe just make an alias of the database-file, put it whereever you want
>>>> and open that from the browser.
>>> 
>>> Tried that; the SQLite browser wouldn't do it.
>> 
>> Which SQLite browser?
> 
> I tried a couple. Probably it was <SQLite Database Browser 2.0> (which I 
> know is old, but its descendant <DB Browser for SQLite 3.9> had some 
> other problems). The database was created by an app I've been using for 
> over a decade; maybe that's part of the problem??

No idea. I've never used a GUI app to mess with SQLite databases; I always
just did it on the command line or through scripting. I was just curious
what you were using.

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Opening a file that's inside a package isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2017-01-12 11:28 -0800
  Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-12 19:47 +0000
    Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-12 20:43 +0000
      Re: Opening a file that's inside a package me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2017-01-14 16:45 +0000
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 17:10 +0000
          Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-01-14 12:35 -0500
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 19:39 +0000
              Re: Opening a file that's inside a package shima.tetsuo@dai.tokyo.teikoku (島鉄雄) - 2017-01-22 04:56 +0000
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-22 05:33 +0000
          Re: Opening a file that's inside a package me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2017-01-14 19:27 +0000
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 19:40 +0000
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2017-01-14 20:18 +0100
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-14 19:20 +0000
          Re: Opening a file that's inside a package me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2017-01-15 16:13 +0000
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-16 15:24 +0000
              Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-16 16:07 +0000
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-16 21:59 +0000
    Re: Opening a file that's inside a package isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2017-01-12 20:29 -0800
      Re: Opening a file that's inside a package befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2017-01-13 09:50 +0100
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2017-01-13 09:24 -0800
          Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 02:31 +0000
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2017-01-13 20:46 -0800
              Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 06:41 +0000
  Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Alrescha <alrescha@gmail.com> - 2017-01-12 15:05 -0500
    Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-12 20:09 +0000
      Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Alrescha <alrescha@gmail.com> - 2017-01-12 15:22 -0500
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-12 20:40 +0000
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-01-12 16:35 -0500
        Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-12 22:11 +0000
          Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-12 22:19 +0000
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-13 03:11 +0000
              Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-13 04:09 +0000
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-13 08:07 +0000
            Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2017-01-13 18:35 -0800
              Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-14 06:41 +0000
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-01-18 20:57 +0100
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-01-18 19:58 +0000
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-01-20 19:18 +0100
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2017-01-21 18:13 -0800
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-01-27 00:07 +0100
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2017-01-29 15:50 -0800
                Re: Opening a file that's inside a package "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-01-30 16:24 +0100
  Re: Opening a file that's inside a package Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-01-12 22:06 +0000

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