FreeTDS Development Group

[Byron Jones <byron AT vianet.net.au>]

greetings,

i've been playing with freetds quite a bit.

i've using the latest version compiled as tdsver 4.2 connecting to a mssql7 
database (docs said this wouldn't work, but it does!).  i'm using 
dbi/dbd-sybase perl to connect.

what i've noticed is freetds is returning results as null terminated 
strings, which causes problems if they aren't manually stripped from the 
results.  currently i'm doing this myself however i now need this bug fixed 
at the source as there's a project where my kludge would take too long to 
implement.

i've searched the archives for this list and found some relevant messages 
which recommend that i update the source from the cvs.  i've followed the 
instructions from your web site (i haven't played with cvs before) by :

cvs -d :pserver:anon-cvs AT freetds.internetcds.com:/Repository checkout freetds

however the problem still remains.

is anyone able to provide me with a patch that will resolve this problem?

thanks :)

-- byron jones ----------------------
   systems administrator
   vianet australia
   http://www.vianet.net.au/~byron