At 09:02 AM 2/10/2001 -0500, Federico Balbi wrote:
>Hi Wade,
>   ODBC flag in the open functions is "o" and not "q" (PDF book has a
>typo).  I do not think the Linux binaries have ODBC built-in. You should
>build your ODBC unicon yourself using gcc and the make scripts provided in
>the unix config directory.

Building from source is not scary. I was a bit disappointed the .rpm didn't 
have it but Clint said he intends to remedy this eventually.


>The last revision of the interface uses:
>
>- f:=open(.."o"..) to open an ODBC connection
>- fetch(f) to fetch a row
>- sql(f,command_string) to send SQL statements to the server
>- close(f) to close the connection

Yes, I like this better than dbopen etc.


>dbopen, dbfetch and dbclose are obsolete and got removed from my page.
>Some links at unicon page may still be outdated though. We'll try to fix
>it asap.
>
>I presume you also installed an ODBC driver for PGSQL right?

Yes, but the documentation for configuring it is extremely opaque. I have 
no idea if I've got it right. I was hoping to use Unicon to test it worked, 
but obviously that's not easy right at the moment.


>I am not sure when you visited my page. I am updating the information at
>http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~fbalbi/unicon

I checked your page yesterday. It's linked from http://unicon.sourceforge.net/

Wade.


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