From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 11:13:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA16074 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:13:28 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA16066 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:13:23 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA04777; Wed, 23 Aug 95 12:14:53 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508231814.AA04777@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: ODBC Support on Free BSD To: davidt@iquest.net Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 12:14:52 MDT Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Taylor" at Aug 23, 95 09:08:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I just ( finally ) got FreeBSD up and running. I love it!!! > The problem has been one of hardware allocation, not problems > with FreeBSD, by the way. > Anyway, I am a full-time Systems developer and part-time consultant > on the side, developing on MicroSofty Windows / NT in C/C++. Part of > my full-time work includes accessing an MS SQL Server. > > ODBC Support on FreeBSD has actually 3 parts : > 1) Currently anyone working on such a package ? > 2) If so, Where can I get info / involved. > 3) If not, I would be interested in investigating it myself. Where > is there a good place or is it even possible to get the specification > for ODBC's Protocol over the net. > > > I believe that ODBC suppot would provide a window to adding a whole > new demention into uses of FreeBSD as a Server / Systems Engine for > intense processing that usually then requires a database. Since most > business require a comercial database, and ODBC is being supported by > a number of databases, I believe this makes since to pursue. Grab it from alt.sources and make a package. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. ] From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Tue Aug 1 19:40:30 1995 ] Return-Path: ] Received: from freefall.cdrom.com by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) ] id AA06297; Tue, 1 Aug 95 19:40:27 MDT ] Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) ] by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA11857 ] ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:02:57 -0700 ] Received: (from majordom@localhost) ] by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA11689 ] for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:59:46 -0700 ] Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) ] by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA11681 ] for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:59:43 -0700 ] Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA16280 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:59:37 -0600 ] Message-Id: <199508012259.QAA16280@rover.village.org> ] To: hackers@freebsd.org ] Subject: iODBC released ] Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 16:59:37 -0600 ] From: Warner Losh ] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org ] Precedence: bulk ] Status: OR ] ] Here's a blurb for this I saw in alt.sources. If anyone is ] interested, I pack-ratted a copy away. ] ] Warner ] ] alt.sources #502 (1) ] From: Ke Jin ] [1] iODBC driver manager -- an ODBC 2.0 compliant driver manager for Unices ] Date: Tue Aug 01 13:56:10 MDT 1995 ] Organization: Queen's University, Kingston ] Lines: 1462 ] Orgnization: Empress Software Inc. ] ] Archive-name: iodbc-2.0b ] Submitted-by: kejin@empress.com ] ] Title: iODBC Driver Manager ] ] Version: 2.00.beta ] ] Description: iODBC (intrinsic Open Database Connectivity) driver manager ] is compatible with ODBC 2.0 specification and performs exactly ] same jobs of ODBC 2.0 driver manager(i.e driver loading, ] parameters and function sequence checking, driver's function ] invoking, etc.). Any ODBC driver works with ODBC 2.0 driver ] manager will also work with iODBC driver manager and vice versa. ] ] Applications(which using ODBC function calls) linked with ] iODBC driver manager will be able to concurrently access ] different data sources through suitable ODBC drivers. See ] README file for detail. ] ] Author: Jin, Ke ] ] Platforms: SunOS 4.1.x ] HP/UX 9.x, 10.x ] Solaris (sparc)2.x ] Solaris (PCx86)2.x ] SGI Irix 5.x ] NCR SVR4 3.x ] UnixWare SVR4.2 1.x ] DEC Alpha (OSF/1) 3.x ] Linux ELF 2.x ] Windows 3.x ] Windows NT 3.x ] OS/2 2.x ] ] Copying-Policy: Freely Redistributable under GNU GPL ] ] Keywords: ODBC, database, SQL ] ] ============================================================= ] begin 644 iodbc.tar.Z ] < omitted to keep the list from killing me :->