Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 20:58:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A MMAP observation Message-ID: <199605170358.UAA18769@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9269.832294686@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at May 17, 96 01:58:06 am
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> > Of course, if somebody would make ODBC clients for FreeBSD so I could let > > it talk to my NT SQL server, then I wouldn't have to mess with this at > > all. :) > > I think ``ODBC'' is another mis-nomer from the halls of Microsoft. I > don't know anything ``open'' about it. I've certainly never seen any > published (and freely available) specs for it (Of course, I will no > doubt be corrected by Terry if I'm wrong :-) ). I'm willing to bet > that you have to pay Microsoft to get the interface specs. I saw a posting of a UNIX ODBC on comp.sources.unix about 8 months ago (+/- 2 months). I didn't grab it because I found the idea singularly uninteresting compared to SQL. I thought it was server-only code. It might have been client-only code. Like I said -- uninteresting. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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