From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jul 30 1:42:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BEB11514B for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 12991 invoked from network); 30 Jul 1999 08:40:11 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 30 Jul 1999 08:40:11 -0000 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by jhs.muc.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03955; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:24:15 GMT (envelope-from jhs) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:24:15 GMT Message-Id: <199907291624.QAA03955@jhs.muc.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: ODBC support ? From: "Julian Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian Stacey" X-Net: jhs@muc.de jhs@freebsd.org www.jhs.muc.de www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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