FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

Bill, 

Herewith, the complete bcp.txt:

<snip>
Bulk Copy
---------

BCP Data Format

+---------+-----+-----+---------------+----------+-------------+------------
+
|         | non | row |               |          |             |  size of
|
|   size  | var | num | fixed columns | row size | var columns | adjustment
|
|         | cols|     |               |          |             |  table
|
+---------+-----+-----+---------------+----------+-------------+------------
+
+---------+------------+
|  end of |  offsets   |
|   data  |  to varlen |
| pointer |    data    |
+---------+------------+
</snip>

I don't think you'll find a need to do any endianism work in the bcp code.
If it were needed, it should be handled (as a last resort) in tdslib.  I
think it's Brian's design intention to bury all server/version issues in
tdslib, freeing the client interfaces (dblib/ctlib/odbc) to deal with an
idealized server.  

Missing features, as I'm sure you've noticed, are bcp from host variables
and transactions.  

> 
> I'll start working on it then.
> 

Excellent!  Rewriting the bcp library has been on my todo list since I got
involved with FreeTDS.  I'd be interested to hear which parts are of
particular interest to you.  

Regards, 

--jkl