FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

Since Sybase was released for Mac OS X, I've been working closely 
with Sybase. They've just informed me that they have been using 
FreeTDS for some internal work, modifying ctlib to:

a) support some of the newer TDS tokens that have been introduced 
with ASE 12.5;
b) fix some datatype handling issues (binary);
c) update the connection capability exchange to let the server know 
that this client can handle new tokens possible with ASE 12.5;
d) optional support for REAL Basic;
e) a ctlib property to enable tds logging.

They've meant to contribute it back to the project, but have been 
lacking the time. However, they've sent me a tarball of their 
changes. The last mod on the included ChangeLog is "Tue Oct 15 
09:37:03 EDT 2002", so the code isn't that far behind (I was worried 
it might be based on 0.53).

So, who feels like going over their code changes?

Doing a grep for the comment signature they used, there are 89 
changes. I could possibly do it next week, but I have a feeling there 
are others out there who could get to it much faster.

Also, they found an undocumented way to login with ctlib without 
having an entry in the interfaces file (which they plan to document 
in the future). I'll be adding support for that to ctlib.

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