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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:33:37 -0700
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From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: Database server on FreeBSD
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At 01:46 PM 5/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 21 May 1997, Stephane Legrand wrote:
>
>> I think the major problem is to find a good server which can be used via
>> Windows clients.
>
>	There are a few 'free' ODBC driver projects that are out there...for
>PostgreSQL, there is a PostODBC and a FreeODBC that I know of off the top of
>my head.  I've heard more about the PostODBC project, but I believe both have
>reported very good linkups between PostgreSQL and MSAccess
>
>	There has also been a recent port of psql (the command line interface
>to PostgreSQL) to Windows so that you can work a little more intimately with
>the server without being on a Unix box

On a related note, I think an ODBC driver for windows for the GNU SQL project
would be a good thing, but this requires a port of the client libs to windows.
Anyone have any news on this?