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From: Klaus Marius Hansen <marius@ideogramic.com>
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Subject: Re: What lib*.so contains these?
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IODBC (www.iodbc.org) is a "driver manager" implementing the ODBC
standard. You link with this (libiodbc.so) in your program, and it loads
a driver for a specifix database system in order for your program to
interact with the database system. 

Unfortunately, I have never myself installed it, but I hope this helps
nevertheless.

(And I guess this is one of the spots in which the BetaDBC documentation
is "very preliminary"...)

Regards,
	Klaus

Atle wrote:
> 
> I have wondered what the file 'libiodbc.so' would contain, and it seems as if it might contain something like this:
> 
> SQLAllocConnect
> SQLAllocEnv
> SQLAllocStmt
> SQLColAttributes
> SQLConnect
> SQLDescribeCol
> SQLError
> SQLExecDirect
> SQLFetch
> SQLFreeConnect
> SQLFreeStmt
> SQLGetCursorName
> SQLGetData
> SQLNumResultCols
> SQLRowCount
> SQLSetConnectOption
> SQLSetCursorName'
> SQLSetStmtOption
> 
> These function look more like they belong to the PostGreSQL distro, or mySQL or something than to the Beta system.
> 
> But I am still stuck until I can get to it!
> 
> Where do I start looking for this library?
> If I find a library with a different name, but the same functions, can I assume that the parameters are the same and in the same
> order?
> 
> Could I get a list of functions that I might have to write in C in case of an emergency?
> 
> Thanks, Atle