FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:05:11 -0400 (EDT), "Bob Kline"
<bkline AT rksystems.com> wrote:
> I can see
> some evidence of possible problems that might be related to the
> difficulties John is experiencing.  For example:
> 
>  1. In addition to the tab separator, values are padded out with nulls.

That's a bug.

>  2. The tail ends of longer values from earlier rows are carried
>     forward as garbage appended to shorter values in subsequent rows.

That's a bad bug.

> As I say, I'm not intimately familiar with the way Sybase's version is
> supposed to work, but this doesn't look right to me.

Ahem.  Methinks thou doest protest too much.  

--jkl