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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Problem with freebcp and fixed text output
  • Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:09:24 -0400

Modesto Sevilla wrote:
> I am evaluating freebcp as a replacement to bcp (Sybase) while
> connecting to MS Sql Server 2008. My problem is that when I bcp out a
> table even if I specify a format file, the output does not come out in
> fixed length as it did with bcp.

I think -- I expect! -- that if you install the latest snapshot you'll see
the behavior is corrected. From ChangeLog:

Fri Jul 10 14:01:28 EDT 2009 JK Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>
* src/dblib/bcp.c pad nullable CHAR written to hostfile.

See the ML discussion around that time.

HTH.

--jkl




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