FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Bill Thompson wrote:

> 4) My modifications , which Brian is patching in.
> I have made extensive modifications to the bcp functionality in  FreeTDS.
> I have made it work against SQL 2000 (Though not 7.0 unfortunately) and I
> have implemented the db-lib bcp api , which several people alluded to. You
> can do a crude sort of batching with this, which I have also coded.
> 
> 5) BCP command line program.
> I've also given Brian my code for this, which will work with the FreeTDS
> modifications. I've called it FreeBCP!
> 
> Any questions - I'll be happy to answer. If Brian's going to patch in my
> changes I expect I'll have a few bugs to fix too :-)
> 
> Bill Thompson
> 

Hi Bill,

I'm making slow but steady progress on the patching...Part of the problem 
is that since 0.53, some of the items you added have be added by others 
(the stuff in token.c not the bcp stuff), so it's become a big job merging 
it down.  Also, since 0.53 we've added locales support for date formats, 
so i need to add that back on top of your patch once i get that far (but 
I'll just leave it out for now so i can get the patch in, and then go 
back at it).

So, I'm hoping to get it done by this weekend (fingers crossed).

Brian