FreeTDS Development Group

["Patrick Muldoon" <doon AT inoc.net>]

Hello,

I am trying to extend proftp's mod_sql to talk to a ms sql server 2000
machine using freetds.  I have gotten the latest snapshot installed set up
my freetds.conf file.  I get errors with unknown markers even though the
the versions are all set to 7.

I have worked around the the uknown token error (a quick comment in
token.c) but when I try to use the firstapp.c (from the OpenClient
documentation) with modifications to read from our db, I get the following
error

Attempting to convert unknown source type 0

the Table with our data has the following properties
username varchar(32)
password varchar(16)

I was going to use CS_VARCHAR_TYPE for the datafmt and CS_VARCHAR for the
c format, but it seems in freetds, there is no CS_VARCHAR.  SO I used
CS_CHAR_TYPE and CS_CHAR.  The sql statement I use is "select username,
password from INOC.dbo.tbl_users".  ANd I get the following result,

doon
Attempting to convert unknown source type 0
jim
Attempting to convert unknown source type 0
rick
Attempting to convert unknown source type 0
robert

This should be something like doon password  etc... 

If I change the order of the select , ie select password, user then it
displays the password and the error message

Below is the code I am using. 

          columns[0].datatype = CS_CHAR_TYPE;
          columns[0].format = CS_FMT_NULLTERM;
          columns[0].maxlength = MAXSTRING;
          columns[0].count = 1;
          columns[0].locale = NULL;
          fprintf(OUT_CH,"Binding Column 1\n");
          ret = ct_bind(cmd, 1, &columns[0], name,
                        &datalength[0],
                        &indicator[0]);
          EXIT_ON_FAIL(context, ret,
                       "ct_bind() for username failed");
          fprintf(OUT_CH,"Bound\n");
          /*
          ** Same thing for the 'password' column.
          */
          columns[1].datatype = CS_CHAR_TYPE;
          columns[1].format = CS_FMT_NULLTERM;
          columns[1].maxlength = MAXSTRING;
          columns[1].count = 1;
          columns[1].locale = NULL;
          fprintf(OUT_CH,"Binding Column 2\n");
          ret = ct_bind(cmd, 2, &columns[1], password,
                        &datalength[1],
                        &indicator[1]);
          fprintf(OUT_CH,"Bound\n");
          EXIT_ON_FAIL(context, ret,
                       "ct_bind() for password failed");


Is there any place on line I can go for more examples of how to do this.

Thanks,

Patrick