FreeTDS Development Group

[Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bob Kline wrote:

> 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.
> 

Never mind, I found it.  Took a while to guess the right combination of
search terms.

http://www.sybase.com/products/internet/jdbcconnect/utilities/ribo.zip
in case anyone else is looking for it.

-- 
Bob Kline