[freetds] FreeTDS on Debian: connect to MSSQL with ODBC fails

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Thu Dec 2 20:01:52 EST 2010


ikorot at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> Maybe we can code something in Perl?
> It will be independent of the shell and run on every Linux.

Running on every Linux isn't the goal.  Running on every everything is the
goal! ;-)

Anything with unixODBC installed has a shell; the same can't be said of
Perl.  

I don't want to discourage you.  If you want to contribute osql.pl, I
won't object.  But, I as told Peter, portability hasn't really been a
major difficulty.  Testing the setup and reporting useful diagnostics has
been the the reason for most of the changes.  See for yourself at
http://freetds.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freetds/freetds/src/apps/osql?view=log.
 

--jkl
 





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