FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

A little clarification.

MS SQL 6.5 and below only supports 4.2
MS SQL 7.0 supports 4.2 and 7.0
Sybase 4.9 and below only supports 4.2
Sybase 10.0 and above supports 4.2 and 5.0

You can compile with 4.2, or simply export TDSVER=42 to get it to use the 
correct version.

Brian

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 richard AT iguana.co.nz wrote:

> > > >         I'll spend some time looking at the code itself, but that
> > > > Unknown property error seems interesting...
> > > 
> > > That is from ct_con_props(), looks like the CS_HOSTNAME property.  Most
> > > of the properties aren't implemented until somebody needs them.  It 
> > > shouldn't be too hard to add.  The source is in freetds/src/ctlib/ct.c.
> > 
> >     I added it, but it turns out that for some reason, no matter what
> > host I look for, it chesk for SYBASE in the .interfaces file.
> > 
> >     Now I can get it to connect to the server I selected (and the
> > port I assume is correct after a portscan and some pocking around).
> > However, all I seem to get is:
> > 
> > Unknown marker: 0!!
> > 
> > This seems to happen both with versions compiled for 5.0 and 7.0, and
> > looks to be the last-ditch bail-out of the login tokenizer.  I am trying
> > to connect to a MS-SQL 6.5 server.
> 
> Compile for 4.2
> 
> Richard.
>