FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: September 13, 2002 3:26 PM
> 
> However, I do not recommend using TDS protocol 4.2 for any of the bcp
> functions. 
> It doesn't work, as explained in the manual page for freebcp.
> 
> The reason is that the bcp protocol differs radically from 
> Sybase to SQL
> server 7/2000, so you have to use a TDS version that directs 
> the software
> which method to use. 4.2 is ambiguous in this sense.

Perhaps until 4.2 works, bcp_init should return an error if 4.2 is the
protocol version.  Why try to support 4.2, especially for something as
esoteric as bcp, if 5.0 and 7.0 are known to work?  

--jkl


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