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Ok. I've gotten iodbc compiled on my linux box. Now I need some odbc
drivers to go with it. Can anyone help me find some? I realize
that's a pretty general request, but that's about the extent of it.
I just wanna find out what's out there, how much it costs, and
what's on the way. I found the FreeODBC project, but it appears
there is nothing concrete there yet (at least not on the web page).

Among the things I'ld really like to find is the source code to a
few of these drivers as I'ld like to see some examples of how
drivers are programmed.

Any pointers would be appreciated. . .

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: Ok. I've gotten iodbc compiled on my linux box. Now I need some odbc
: drivers to go with it. Can anyone help me find some? I realize
: that's a pretty general request, but that's about the extent of it.
: I just wanna find out what's out there, how much it costs, and
: what's on the way. I found the FreeODBC project, but it appears
: there is nothing concrete there yet (at least not on the web page).

: Among the things I'ld really like to find is the source code to a
: few of these drivers as I'ld like to see some examples of how
: drivers are programmed.

Ke Jin (who wrote iODBC) has also written a cool ODBC driver
which provides an ODBC style interface to a standard NNTP port
(i.e. News server).  The source may be found at:

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/database/perl-interfaces/other/iODBC/nnodbc-0.5....
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/other/iODBC/nnodbc-0.5.shar

The problem with a commercial ODBC driver (eg: one that connects
to an Informix database), is that it needs client side support,
for Linux, from the database vendor.  (The driver just maps ODBC
calls to native calls.)

Stuart.
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: The problem with a commercial ODBC driver (eg: one that connects
: to an Informix database), is that it needs client side support,
: for Linux, from the database vendor.  (The driver just maps ODBC
: calls to native calls.)

Unless you capture enough sessions to figure out exactly how the
native client side apps on other platforms work. Then you can fake
it from there. . .

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Jettero,

My company SYWARE, Inc. sells ODBC Driver Kits that are comprised of
source code for a dbase driver. No one has compiled our c source under
Linux, that I'm aware of, but it has been compiled under several other
UNIX OS's. Prices start at $2100.00 Details are on our webpage at:

        http://www.syware.com

Best Regards,
Frank Yacano

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: > >
: > >
: > > Among the things I'ld really like to find is the source code to a
: > > few of these drivers as I'ld like to see some examples of how
: > > drivers are programmed.
: >
: > Good luck on this, as developing ODBC drivers is not a trivial task, and
: > I doubt that too many folks are going to be very eager to just post
: > their efforts for general use....

Have a look at www.postgeSQL.org. Wonderful database and under 3rd Party
software you'll find what you are looking for,

Anton