FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>]

Hi John,

Effectively, you can think of freetds is an open source stand in for
Sybase Open Client.
Although freetds's raison d'etre was to enable connectivity to MS SQL
Server from non-windows clients, it can connect to Sybase just as well.

as far as Sybase open client is concerned, freetds implements
db-library, ct-library, bcp (our version is called "freebcp"), defncopy.
We don't have a fully functional "isql" program, because sqsh does the
job just as well, if not better.

Our documentation, "how to get what works with it working" shows you how
to get sqsh working compiled against the freetds libraries rather than
sybase open client.

If you need more help, just ask.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of john saylor
Sent: 10 October 2006 22:16
To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [freetds] open client availability?


hi

this is slightly OT ...

i looked in the FAQ and found nothing.

is it possible to get the open client distribution [now SDK] without 
buying it from sybase? [i want to compile sqsh and it keeps asking for 
the sybase libs].

if not, does anyone know how much it costs? the sybase web cart bombed 
out on me!

-- 
\js
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