Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@controlq.com> Cc: matt@msg.ucsf.edu, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: native Sybase support soon? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005242033190.29140-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005241713340.19677-100000@schizo.controlq.com>
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Robert S. Sciuk wrote: > I assume that you know about freetds in the ports collection?? > > Port description for databases/freetds > > This is TDS protocol library (CTlib/DBlib) that is used to connect to > Microsoft and Sybase SQL servers. This can be used instead of native > libraries, that are shipped with commercial products. Yes, I use FreeTDS. But it is very finicky. It is a work in progress. Someone from Sybase came on the FreeTDS list announced that the driver would be open-sourced! But it fizzeled out. So the slow reverse-engineering and guesswork development process of FreeTDS continues on. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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