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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17039 comp.os.linux.help:83153 comp.databases.sybase:14242 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!walter!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!well!miwok!nbor.borwankar.com!not-for-mail From: nitin@nbor.borwankar.com (Nitin Borwankar) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.databases.sybase Subject: Re: DB-LIB-like interface on FreeBSD/Linux? Date: 17 Mar 1995 20:44:20 -0800 Organization: none Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3kdof4$3e5@nbor.borwankar.com> References: <1995Feb6.182342.16196@uxmail.ust.hk> <3hfqbh$i2@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <D3xFqq.KHB@itf.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: nbor.borwankar.com Keywords: DB-LIB, Open Client, Sybase, SQL In article <D3xFqq.KHB@itf.ch>, Michael Peppler <mpeppler@itf.ch> wrote: [...] > >The short answer, as Teresa put it, is that it doesn't work. >The long answer is that one would need to wheedle the TDS protocol >definition from Sybase in order to write a minimal implementation of >DBlib (dblogin/dbopen/dbcmd/dbsqlexec/dbresults/dbnextrow/dbdata). > >Michael >-- >Michael Peppler, ITF Management SA, Fontaine 13, CH-1204 Geneva >mpeppler@itf.ch - Tel (4122) 312 1311 - Fax (4122) 312 1325 >"A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something >undreamed of by its author." -- S. C. Johnson This is a rumor. Please don't tke this as fact. I have a friend at Sybase who suggests that there might be an unsupported port of dblib and sybtcl forthcoming. No more details. If you are interested send me mail and I will forward. Nitin borwankar. nitin@borwankar.com