Linux-Misc Digest #435, Volume #21 Tue, 17 Aug 99 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: What I think of linux. ("Jeff Mullen")
Re: startx -- -bpp 16.....too long to type ("Vladimir Oster")
Re: Anyone know how to make enlightenment run by itself? (Samuel Davidoff)
Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name? (Samuel Davidoff)
Re: Needed Very compatible Network card (Mircea)
Re: help removing linux (toby)
Re: Netscape mail import (Christopher Conway)
Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux? (Peter Garrone)
Re: X not found ! by 'configure' for FVWM (Lev Babiev)
Re: Netscape mail import ("Art S. Kagel")
Setserial problem (Zeeuw)
Re: Who can help me about my Trident 4D wave sound card? ("Michiel Denie")
Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name? (Gernot Fink)
Re: mandrake versus redhat? ("Ted Pavlic")
Re: Any free SQL server available? ("Ted Pavlic")
Blank Screensaver in Gnome? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Printing from Netscape (Jared Hecker)
Re: Linux client for MS Sql-server 7.0? ("Ted Pavlic")
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From: "Jeff Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:23:10 -0400
Brian Langenberger wrote in message <7p9s58$542$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Adam JBC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>: Anyway, during that holiday, I learn a bit of QBasic. Then we went home.
A
>: couple of years later, my dad brought a lap top home from work. I found
a copy
>: of QBasic, and continued programming. I then 'upgraded' to VB4, and I
now have
>: VB5, in fact the whole of Visual Studio (which I got off a student
licence)
>: sitting right next to me.
>
>: My next task is to learn C/++.
>
>Just a bit of free advice..jumping from Basic to C is painful :)
>You might want to try learning Java first and then go to C/C++ from there.
>Free development kit downloads are at: http://www.blackdown.org
>and plenty of good books on the subject are at: http://www.oreilly.com
>
>Learn all the languages you can, really, but Java's good for teaching
>"object oriented programming" (the latest industry buzzword ;) and gives
>nice instant gratification with its built-in graphics libraries :)
>
>But back on topic...I'm a programming nut. I started with Basic on the
>Apple][ and made a habit of looking through other peoples' Basic programs
>to find useful tidbits I could add to my own programs :) But, the things
>I wrote never did get fast enough (despite plenty of optimizations on my
>part) and I'd run out of memory - often.
>
Interesting. Similar to my own experience. I actually started out with
written english (I still write short stories and the like as a hobby, and
still entertain dreams of finding an agent someday and seeing just how
good I *really* am...but that's another topic). It never ceases to amaze
me how similar a computer program is to a story--and how few other
people have come to this realization!
For the record, a computer program is MUCH more difficult to write,
but MUCH more rewarding when complete. :)
Learned BASIC on an apple ][ in high school. Liked to go over other
people's code, too. Did a lot of helping people along in college. Even
wrote a command summary for good ol' vi at the alma mattre. Wonder
if they still use the thing. After going to Pascal in college, I picked up
the K&R Bible and, one week later, was programming at a low but
competant level in C. Along came a new type of bug: "memory
munchers." It's been increasingly more fun ever since. :)
>Eventually I moved on to college and SunOS boxes (in the pre-Solaris days
>:) running X and programming Pascal with vi and friends. That was quite a
>jump! I had no idea about DOS/Windows (having never used them) and
>encountering Macs was seldom. But I got to know general day-to-day UNIX
>very well and thought Pascal was a lot of fun - a lot better than Basic,
>at any rate! All of a sudden I could *compile* programs and have actual
>executables! I was amazed :)
>
>Then, of course, I moved on to C. That was a bit on the painful side. C
>isn't very forgiving of mistakes, and it wasn't taught to me very well. A
>simple explanation that "all C functions are pass-by-value" would've
>helped me quite a bit through the whole pointer/address fiasco. C++ went
>quite a bit better, but I haven't had a use for either in quite some time.
>That's just the nature of my current employment, really.
>
I went to an even further extreme. I developed a variable naming convention
that shows a variable's type and scope. It REALLY cuts into the memory
munchers.
>Just for fun, I moved on to Java and got very good at it. So good, in
>fact, I wound up doing a few too many system-level programs in Java simply
>because I didn't know anything else well enough to do things fast enough
>(I found C/C++ quite a bit too low-level, for example). I still dabble in
>Java where it's best suited, but I leave the day-to-day stuff to languages
>better suited to the task ;)
>
Though I'm still heavily into C/C++, I have come to the same realization.
>I moved on to Perl from there and found it a whole lot easier to get a
>whole lot more done than I did with C, or even Java for that matter since
>basic things like resizable arrays and hashtables were built right into
>the language - instead of instantiating yet another Vector :)
>
>I started hearing about Python and tried learning it from online
>tutorials, but the docs I found made better references than learning
>materials. When O'Reilly's Learning Python was finally published, I
>snatched it up right away and was hooked. Finally, all the powerful
>language features I liked in Perl with the "practically everything is an
>object" philosophy I enjoyed in Java.
>
>At the risk of starting Yet Another Boring Language War, I'll give my
>personal experiences on the subject a rest and move on to more Linux-type
>matters :)
>
No war here! Your opinions are well-thought and obviously the result of
years of experience.
>Eventually I did find my way to DOS and Windows3.11, and it wasn't a
>pleasant transition. I missed having a powerful shell. I missed xterms.
>I even missed xv and pine. Every single Windows(3.11) program I used felt
>cheap compared to their big robust UNIX counterparts. Doom was the only
>thing that convinced me DOS was pretty valuable to have.
>
Spent 3 years writing a medical billing system under MSDOS. Except for
the multitasking, I couldn't find much difference. Windows, OTOH, stunk
from the moment it was brought out--and I got my hands on Windows,
version 2 running on a 286 box! It was never anything but a cheap,
half-assed
rip-off of the MAC OS.
God, but there are days when I'd sell my soul for the chance to use the
General Regular Expression Pattern-matcher (grep), the Differentiator
(diff) or that quick-and-dirty pseudolanguage by Aho, Kernigan and
Weinberger (awk) again!
>Maybe my experience has given me a "tainted" outlook of the typical Wintel
>world, but I honestly missed having compilers included in an OS along with
>a myriad of "sharp pointy tools" to get day-to-day jobs done. Strange as
>it may seem, for me it's much more satisfying to see a list of my
>PalmPilot apps using "pilot-xfer" than with any window-driven utility. Or
>to get a listing of mp3s using "rio" and having them show up in an xterm,
>for example. I don't claim to be a typical user, but there's something
>about interfacing with fancy new hardware using raw text that just feels
>more "real" to me.
>
>That's why when I finally decided to pick up some hardware for myself,
>Linux seemed the obvious choice. Not because it's "trendy" or has pretty
>desktop environments, but because I can use bare-bones window managers to
>fill my screen with xterms and emacs'en. That's the environment I feel at
>home in, and it's where I get the most work done.
>
Amen. When I drive a car, I prefer standard shift. Same goes for
computers.
>Enough of my ramblings for now. But after 25 years, I've found a
>programming and working environment that I like. And I won't budge until
>something better comes along :)
>
Good luck.
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From: "Vladimir Oster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: startx -- -bpp 16.....too long to type
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:38:42 +0200
Hi,
you can also add DefaultColorDepth 16
in the XF86Config
Vladimir Oster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Knott wrote in message ...
>In article <7okmoi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson) wrote:
>>
>>Nevyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>i want to keep using startx to start x but i like to start it like
>>>above, and would like to know if i can modify a file so i can go back to
>>>just typing startx but still getting the better colour depth....any
>>>ideas??
>>
>>You can modify startx itself! It is a shell script, and indeed
>>here is what it says right up at the top of it,
>>
>> "# This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive
>> # interface than xinit. It looks for user .xinitrc and .xserverrc
>> ...
>> # Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions."
>>
>>I don't recall exactly what the original looks like, but here are
>>a couple of lines at the top of my startx (incidentally, I have
>>an alias, alias x=`startx`, because not only is an argument to
>>startx too long to type, but so is the 'start' part!),
>
>And you can alway create a different script or alias for each
>resolution. i.e. x16, x24 etc.
>
>
>--
>E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>_________________________________________________________________________
>The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
>IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: Samuel Davidoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know how to make enlightenment run by itself?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:37:47 -0400
What series of commands specifically are you using to try to run it?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have redhat 6.0 and when I try to run enlightenment without GNOME or
> KDE it gives me an error message, saying that it needs an environment to run
> it in, but the enlightenment docs say that i can run it by itself and I have
> been to http://e.themes.org and have seen it running by itself. Anyone know
> what I have to do to get it running ? Any help at all would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Samuel Davidoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:33:25 -0400
also this should work:
cd name\ with\ space
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vilmos Soti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Niann Shiang wrote:
> >
> > deep sea. Worse than that is the directory I created under kde has a
> > space in the dir name and emergency booting does not allow me to
> > access the dir. Any advice ?
>
> Hello,
>
> Try the following:
>
> cd "name with space"
> cd 'name with space'
> cd na*
> cd and the [TAB] button.
>
> Make it fit for your needs, of course.
>
> Vilmos
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Needed Very compatible Network card
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:35:32 -0400
Check out www.pricewatch.com
I've always had very good results with SMC shared-memory cards, under
all OSs.
MST
Daniel Berrettoni wrote:
>
> I have to buy a new network card, but I need it to work in Windows 95,
> 98, Windows 2000 and Linux 6. I need it to be an cheap one, that only
> works, no matter the perfomance or speed (10 or 100 mbits it's ok). I
> whish it to be BNC and UTP 5 compatible..
>
> I usually used ISA NE2000 compatible ones, with jumper settings, but I
> can't get a new one of that, and the new card almost comes in PCI
> format and need drivers. Any sugerences and/or idea of price? Thanks!
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From: toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help removing linux
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:37:30 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brett & Regina wrote:
> I had setup Linux RH 5.2 on my system and have decided to remove it but
> cannot remove the second partition on my hard drive since the boot image
> is not working.........I have tried re-imaging a floppy to boot from but
> it did not work. How do I remove the second partition and get the first
> partition to boot to dos.
>
> Regina
You will need to create a boot disk with a ramdisk filesystem. It will need
to have fdisk on it. The MS-DOS fdisk is broken (duh) and will only see DOS
partitions. After you get the boot disk, which can be made from the RedHat
CD under Windows by using RAWRITE.EXE and choosing the rescue.img as your
source image.* Use a fresh disk for best performance. Reboot with this disk
and type rescue at the RedHat screen. Then run fdis and delete the
partitionk. Reboot to the DOS prompt and setup the new partition and format
it.
Toby
*You can also hunt around for more complete bootdisk utilities on the
linux.com or linnux.org website.
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From: Christopher Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail import
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:55:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rod Pike wrote:
> > This is not good news. I am in a similar position although I would
like
> > to be able to read/compose email from both Win98 and Linux but share
the
> > same file area where messages are saved. If Netscape cannot do
this,
> > are there other applications that can?
>
> Again, I am not an expert on this. However, most email programs are
> supposed to support the same email standard (Netscape and Outlook are
> exceptions). So if you use Eudora and, say, KMail, this should work.
>
> Or you could simply use Pine...
Can Pine be used as a POP client? I've used it quite a
bit with shell accounts, so I'm comfortable with it.
Is there an X version?
Chris
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:20:00 +1000
From: Peter Garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux?
Alan Lee wrote:
> Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > Seems like Soundblasters are good. Ensoniq seems good also.
> > There are drivers for
> > SB Live from Creative. SB 16 is easy A lot of people
> > have problems with AWE 64. SB 128 seems to work pretty well also.
> > Jeanette
>
> Mine is SB 128... but it DOESN'T work at all! When I do sndconfig,
> it tells me that "sox: /dev/dsp not known". Does anyone know what it means?
> How can I get it work??? My kernel is 2.2.9
>
> Alan Lee
The device file /dev/dsp does not exist on your system for some reason. I am
not familiar
enough with all distributions to know why that might be so.
On my Debian system, /dev/dsp is major device 14, minor device 3, and
/dev/mixer is 14 0.
Use the command "mknod" as root to create these files, and your program might
get a bit further
before it crashes again!
The command
mknod /dev/dsp 14 3
should do something.
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From: Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X not found ! by 'configure' for FVWM
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:52:14 -0400
Try
--prefix=/usr
or
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include
(don't use /X11 at the end, it's already part of included filesnames)
- Lev
Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
>
> I tried to install fvwm2 from source.
>
> 'configure' failed to find my X libraries !
> It says :
> X11/Xlib.h : No such file
> X11/Xatom.h : No such file
> X11/Xutil.h : No such file
>
> Of course, I have all these files in /usr/X11R6/include/X11 !
>
> I tried to run 'configure' with the following options (1 at a time) :
> --with-include-file= <the above dir>
> --with-libraries= <the above dir>
> ...
> as the fvwm FAQ suggested, but the result was the same :
> nothing... X was not found !
>
> I don't understand the situation, as I installed the 'xpm' package
> to its normal directory, so 'configure' should had found it anyway...
>
> Can anyone help to solve this question ?
>
> My system is a RedHat 5 Linux.
>
> --
> Mihaly Gyulai
> http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gyulai/
> Do you want plus 2000 US $ for work ?
>
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> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail import
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:51:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Conway wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Rod Pike wrote:
> > > This is not good news. I am in a similar position although I would
> like
> > > to be able to read/compose email from both Win98 and Linux but share
> the
> > > same file area where messages are saved. If Netscape cannot do
> this,
> > > are there other applications that can?
> >
> > Again, I am not an expert on this. However, most email programs are
> > supposed to support the same email standard (Netscape and Outlook are
> > exceptions). So if you use Eudora and, say, KMail, this should work.
> >
> > Or you could simply use Pine...
>
> Can Pine be used as a POP client? I've used it quite a
> bit with shell accounts, so I'm comfortable with it.
> Is there an X version?
I just run pine in an xterm -e pine. You can set or modify the geometry
of the xterm and pine will catch the SIGWINCH and adjust itself
accordingly. It has a config option to allow you to navigate with the
mouse but then cut and paste do not work well, at least in the version
3.96 that I use.
Art S. Kagel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zeeuw)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Setserial problem
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:24:36 GMT
I have a problem setting up the com-port on my modem in SuSE 6.1. I
have a Dynalink PnP modem, got the PnP part working, but when I want
to set up the serial port with "setserial /dev/ttyS1 ..." , I get the
message: Operation not supported on device.
I can use setserial /dev/cua1, and then set ttyS1, and it works. But
as far as I know it should just work with ttyS1 the first time, right?
Any help would be appreiated.
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From: "Michiel Denie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who can help me about my Trident 4D wave sound card?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:57:28 +0200
Lee Ying <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7p8v9k$vc1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I download ALSA-driver-2.0.3.tar.gz and install as its manual on
> RedHat 6.0.
> My sound card appears in Windows98 as Trident 4D wave PCI.
> So I choose snd-trid4dwave.o and edit conf.modules
>
Hey,
Not being on the machine with the Trident right
now, I can't post my module.conf file for
comparison, but my first suggestion would be to
check if you have unmuted your mixer. By default
all mixer channels are muted (which seems an odd
default, but that's the way it is). Check the
documentation that came with ALSA, there are some
directions on how to go about it.
Drop me a mail if you still can't figure it out.
Michiel Denie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name?
Date: 17 Aug 1999 14:08:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niann Shiang) writes:
> During a mysterical process of debugging, I took out a "login" file,
> which looks like a piece of garbage, from /bin directory and put it in
> a temperatory dir created under kde. What a mistake ! I could not
> login to the root account anymore. Anything I typed seems to sink into
> deep sea. Worse than that is the directory I created under kde has a
> space in the dir name and emergency booting does not allow me to
> access the dir. Any advice ?
Use "filname with space" or
filename?with?space or
filename\ with\ space.
--
MFG G.Fink
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From: "Ted Pavlic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mandrake versus redhat?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:10:01 -0400
2.2.10 is probably (well... most likely ... well... most definitely) a very
bad bet.
If you're going to go 2.2.10, I recommend getting some major patches -- like
2.2.10ac12.
But if you're not running this on anything important, normal 2.2.10 might be
fine -- just don't put it in place on any server environment or any
environment where you want stability. (Just get the latest patches and
you'll be fine)
And of course, I agree with the KDE comment. For now, I definitely recommend
KDE. (Though Gnome is cute.)
All the best --
Ted
Dan Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi! I recommend Mandrake. There are a few things I should let you know
> though. First off, the kernel they supply you with (2.2.9-19mdk) is a tad
> unstable at times with a few systems. So, if you love to compile your own
> kernel, go for it :) I'd recommend 2.2.10 or 2.2.11pre3. Also, there is
a
> problem with cron.daily that will give you an error message in your root
user
> e-mail account. That is also easy to fix, but, it's been a few weeks, so
> I don't quite remember the error (/etc/cron.daily). Hmm, and I'd
recommend
> KDE (Gnome is a bit buggy still). Good luck.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dan Johnson
>
>
>
> SS wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently running Redhat 5.2, and am interested in upgrading.
However,
> > I am a bit at odds as to whether I should make a lateral move to the
> > Mandrake distribution, which I have seen on the shelves everywhere. It
> > seems just as good and as easy to use as Redhat, while also being a lot
> > cheaper for the CD itself.
> >
> > Can anyone give me some advice as to which distribution would be the
best
> > choice? Please cc your response to my email address if that is
possible.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Steve
>
> --
> -------------------------------------
> Ahh! A Micro$oft Land!
>
> Oh look! The Penguins are attacking!
> -------------------------------------
>
>
>
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From: "Ted Pavlic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any free SQL server available?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:19:55 -0400
Wasn't Sybase just released free for Linux? I don't know what the terms of
use are though.
And MySQL is a great server. (Yet you may have to purchase a license for
commercial use)
mSQL is alright.
People seem to like Postgres... but I know nothing about it.
WME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Xc2u3.65757$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> Is there any free SQL server available for commercial use?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Blank Screensaver in Gnome?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:41:57 GMT
Hi folks, I'm using RH6.0 with GNOME, how can I set in GNOME the screen saver
to let it turn into a blank screen when idle for a period of time? I couldn't
find such an option in the screen saver configure menu in GNOME, all that
I could see were those cheesy fancy stuff, but not the simple BLANK SCREEN"!
I could find it easily in KDE, but I want to use GNOME for the time being.
I've tracked xscreensaver to /usr/X11R6/shared/xscreensaver/, I've tried
editing the Screensaver file in my .gnome directory, but they just didn't
work! Please someone help, all I want is just a blank screen for screen
saver in xscreensaver/GNOME! Thanks in advance!
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From: Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing from Netscape
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:28:42 GMT
Hi all,
I have an HPLJ 5P attached to a RH5.2 system. It prints text great, but
Netscape wants to print in Postscript. Is there a translator utility or
something I can do to get it to print in PCL?
If it is convenient, email will reach me faster.
TIA -
Regards,
jh
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From: "Ted Pavlic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux client for MS Sql-server 7.0?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:22:21 -0400
Sybase stuff will interface with MSSQL -- and now you can get Sybase support
for Linux for free.
So go to CPAN -- download the Sybase stuff... You may need to actually
download the Sybase-ASE from Sybase... But I got it working just fine
talking to my MSSQL servers.
Byron A Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7pbjrs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Posted and Mailed to Markku.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Markku Koskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Evening..
> >
> > Does anyone know of an sql client for Linux that could use Microsoft
> >SQL Server 7.0? I am pretty desperately looking for one, because if I
> >find one, I could do all my work with Linux and not Win95 that is the
> >other alternative..
>
> I just got tasked with a similar problem. May I suggest taking a look at
> the Perl DBI Module available at http://cpan.perl.com. It let's you write
> fairly high level commands and has drivers (you could use ODBC for MSSQL)
> that connect and interact with the database.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> BAJ
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