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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16604 comp.os.linux.help:79555 comp.databases.sybase:13458 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.databases.sybase Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!chsun!itf1!mpeppler From: mpeppler@itf.ch (Michael Peppler) Subject: Re: DB-LIB-like interface on FreeBSD/Linux? Message-ID: <D3xFqq.KHB@itf.ch> Keywords: DB-LIB, Open Client, Sybase, SQL Organization: ITF Management SA, Geneva, Switzerland References: <1995Feb6.182342.16196@uxmail.ust.hk> <3hfqbh$i2@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 07:06:21 GMT Lines: 25 In article <3hfqbh$i2@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Teresa A Larson <larson@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >In article <1995Feb6.182342.16196@uxmail.ust.hk>, eenguyen@uxmail.ust.hk (Prof. Cuong T. NGUYEN) writes: >|> I've searched through as many readme's/FAQ's as I could. The >|> question: is there some interface for me to write programs on >|> Linux/FreeBSD to connect to an SQL Server running on Windows NT? I'd >|> thought sybperl was the answer, but it requires DB-LIB! > >As far as I know the answer is no. I've been looking too for some >time. I've also had several requests from folks wanting to use sybperl on platforms where no DBlib exists. The short answer, as Teresa put it, is that it doesn't work. The long answer is that one would need to wheedle the TDS protocol definition from Sybase in order to write a minimal implementation of DBlib (dblogin/dbopen/dbcmd/dbsqlexec/dbresults/dbnextrow/dbdata). Michael -- Michael Peppler, ITF Management SA, Fontaine 13, CH-1204 Geneva mpeppler@itf.ch - Tel (4122) 312 1311 - Fax (4122) 312 1325 "A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author." -- S. C. Johnson