FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +0200, Jaap van Arragon wrote:
> 
> If you want me to test more OSQL functionality I gladly want to help!

Thanks, Jaap.  I would really like that.  

Writing portable shell scripts is hard (for me, at least!) and I can't test 
on every OS.  When you showed me the awk output, the meaning of it was both 
clear and seemingly impossible.  Yet Steve recognized it immediately, and 
sure enough that was it: you're using mawk.  

My first instinct was to say, "Here's a nickle, kid, get yourself a decent 
awk."  But that's not the right answer unless my job is to rid the world of 
broken utilities, which it's not.  So, without further ado, I committed a new 
osql that works around the problem.  (There was only one use of awk that 
relied on a regular expression passed to -F, so it was an easy fix.)  

http://freetds.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/freetds/freetds/src/apps/osql?revision=1.11

Kindly download revision 1.11 and let me know what you see.  You can just run 
it normally (without sh -x).  Since you have a working setup now, the 
messages should report that your setup is OK and connect you to the server.  

Regards, 

--jkl