Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:24:15 GMT From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: ODBC support ? Message-ID: <199907291624.QAA03955@jhs.muc.de>
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Request for info on ODBC, (skip this article if you don't know ODBC) Anyone know of any ODBC support sources that I might port to FreeBSD ? I looked in 3.2-release/usr/ports/INDEX, but no ODBC keyword. ODBC is a Micro$oft database format I believe ? There's maps of Germany available on CD-ROM, but I refuse to install Micro$oft on my laptop, & I'd prefer to avoid Wine & VMware complexities. I don't mind getting dragged ito C or (new to me) Java ports though. Being British resident in Germany, near Austrian border, I'll later also be interested in whatever format Ordnance Survey in the UK publish CDs in (if they do) .... & maybe other countries maps such as Italy too. It seems one might have a jungle of various formats to consider, probably all with accompanying smelly M$oft .exes ( Ugh ! :-( ) PS I see SCO has "Limited ODBC support" (some ref to that & SQL in Vision2K leaflet printed by SCO Germany 2/99 (I don't know if they used proprietary code or hopefully/maybe they ported public stuff ?) ... I don't want to get involved with SCO exe's though, I had enough SCO on last project, & the BSD [SCO] emulator only does 1 of 2 exec formats. Suggestions/Info ? Julian H. Stacey http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Considering Linux ? Then also consider the 2000+ free packages for FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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