Ok, now that we've got that cleared up. The original question was do the Merant drivers offer additional capabilities? Specifically, does the dBase/FoxPro driver offer both read & write capability. I actually have an older NT4 server where I was stuck at using MDAC 1.5 (?) because a customer has dBase files they needed to write to. I'm guessing that the inclusion of the Merant driver is to address the limitations of the Microsoft drivers. If true, I wish I'd known and upgraded a long time ago.
Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Dickerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: RE: CF5 Merant Drivers > Jesse's been living in the Linux world too long. :-) > > The Merant drivers were not included with CF for Windows previous to version > 5. > > Debbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:09 PM > To: CF-Server > Subject: Re: CF5 Merant Drivers > > > My CF 4.01 Pro servers only have Micfosoft ODBC drivers installed. Were the > Merant drivers not installed by default? > > Jim > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jesse Noller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:59 PM > Subject: RE: CF5 Merant Drivers > > > > The merant drivers have always been a part of Colldfusion. they just were > > not named the same in previous versions. > > > > ======================== > > Jesse Noller > > Linux Fiend > > Macromedia Server Development > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Information may want to be free, but fiber > > optic cable wants to be a million US dollars per mile." --Shawn McMahon > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:37 PM > > > To: CF-Server > > > Subject: CF5 Merant Drivers > > > > > > > > > I just installed Win2k and CF5 on a new server. I noticed (only after > > > installing CF5) that I've got a few Merant ODBC drivers. I > > > assume they were > > > installed with CF5. There's a Merant text driver and an > > > Excel driver now, > > > in addition to the MS text and Excel drivers. Is there a > > > story behind why > > > these were include with CF? I see that the log viewer uses > > > the Merant text > > > driver, so I'm guessing that's the reason for the text > > > driver, but why the > > > Excel driver? > > > > > > Does the dBase/FoxPro driver support both reading and writing to dBase > > > files? IIRC, the write capability was removed from > > > Microsoft's dBase and > > > FoxPro drivers starting with something like MDAC 2.0. > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
