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  • From: Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:04:21 -0400 (EDT)


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





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