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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: interface or freetds.conf
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:02:40 -0400 (EDT)


Hi,

The interfaces file is adapted from Sybase OpenClient and was the format
used for specifying servers used by FreeTDS upto version 0.51 (I think).
The format of interfaces is not very extensible and when we needed extra
options specified (version number, dump file, endian flags, etc...) we
adopted a new format based loosely on the samba configuration file and
named it 'freetds.conf'.

Advantages of intefaces:

. compatibility with sybase interfaces file if running in a mixed
environment

Advantages of freetds.conf:

. No need to specify $SYBASE variable at runtime
. Has a global section for system wide configuration
. Some options can only be controlled via freetds.conf

Cheers,

Brian

PS jkl, should we add this to userguide/faq?

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, gik wrote:

> hi, I'm new in here.
> I would to ask about the difference between file interface and
> freetds.conf, cause my friends use freetds doesn't need file
> "freetds.conf" or just need file "interface" ?
>
> thx before
>





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