Packaging FreeTDS for Debian
Michael Peppler
mpeppler at peppler.org
Tue Dec 21 11:54:01 EST 1999
Brian Bruns writes:
> The interfaces file stores the IP address and port of the dataserver. It
> is referenced in src/tds/util.c if you are interested.
>
> In order to maintain compatibility with Sybase's OpenClient the SYBASE
> environment variable is used as a location to look for the interfaces
> file.
>
> I posted a message a few days ago about the search order that is used, but
> in brief it is: 1) specified in the application 2) $HOME/.interfaces 3)
> $SYBASE/interfaces
Note that in the normal Sybase OpenClient $SYBASE is also used to find
the locale information files used for Client Library. I guess that
freetds doesn't yet support locales in this way though.
Michael
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