From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 23 05:27:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA28245 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.muc.ditec.de (gw.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA28240 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tartufo.muc.ditec.de (tartufo.muc.ditec.de [134.98.18.2]) by gw.muc.ditec.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA14490; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:25:42 +0200 Received: by tartufo.muc.ditec.de (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 23 Apr 96 14:28 MSZ Message-Id: Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 14:28 MSZ From: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: Trav757@aol.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programming API Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.ports References: <960423003408_196848082@emout07.mail.aol.com> <3614.830244597@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.ports you write: >No, it is not. >> Is this msql product an embedded SQL product? I'm looking to write C/C++ apps >> which access databases using embedded SQL. I'd say it depends which way you look at it. Msql uses a server daemon to handle the databases. There *IS* a C programming API to access msql databases. In fact, the screen oriented msql client as well as the w3-msql web frontend use it as that's the *only* way to stick data into a DB or get it out. The client uses a TCP connection to the server to do its thing. Look at http://Hughes.com.au/ Michael -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)