FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Unless you've been paying close attention, you probably haven't noticed we
have a new utility in src/apps called "fisql".  It's a featureful db-lib
based isql, contributed (to the public domain?) by Nick Castellano.  We
now have a complete set of developer tools: isql, freebcp, and defncopy. 
In addition, we have tsql for low-level testing and bsqldb for batch
processing.  Not bad!  

Nick, before another day goes by, I want to publicly thank you, if I may,
on behalf of the community!  Your timing couldn't have been better,
either, as you probably know.  Having fixed the error handling in db-lib,
I was publicly musing about the utility of dbsetinterrupt(), and the next
thing I know an application that uses it shows up in CVS.  You can imagine
my surprise.  

I must be doing something wrong, though, because on my machine fisql
resolutely refuses to print data:

$ printf 'select 1 as one\ngo\n' | src/apps/fisql/fisql -S $S -U $U -P $P
Msg 5701, Level 10, State 2:
Server 'test', Changed database context to 'FreeTDS'.

one         
        
----------- 
        
----------- 
        

(1 rows affected)

        
Either I forgot something obvious, or I've got more debugging to do....

I added a man page for fisql.  I wonder about the name, though: the "Fine
Interactive SQL"  tool?

Congratulations and regards, 

--jkl