Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)

Bob Kline bkline at rksystems.com
Sat Jun 10 10:02:15 EDT 2000


On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Scott C. Gray wrote:

> 
> I mentioned this in the list a while back, but no-one replied...
> 
> There is a tool, freely available from Sybase's web site, called
> Ribo (named after the developer's dog).  Ribo sniffs TDS and dumps
> its contents in human readable for (i.e. translating the bytes to
> human strings).  I scoured the download for anything resembling a
> license and there isn't any.  IAMNAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), but as far
> as I can tell, this should be sufficient to reverse engineer 95% of
> TDS 5.0 without violating any confidentiality agreements.  Any
> thoughts?

Have a link?  A search of the Sybase web site didn't unearth it.

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Bob Kline
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