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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:28:07 -0500
From: Steve Harris <scharris@worldnet.att.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] database fileservice
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Anthony Sorace wrote:

> along the lines of what you're doing, i'd like to
> see a service that can connect to arbitrary SQL
> servers (either remote or local) and provide a
> 9-ish interface to that, much like /net. that way

Yeah, that *would* be nice, and probably we'd have the thing quicker
that way (by just concentrating on the client side).  

I first looked at porting unixODBC and then building the fs service on 
top of that, but I didn't like how the unixODBC code looked, and 
couldn't get the will to port it.  Nothing against the code itself, 
it's probably just the nature of the thing: ODBC has gotten a lot 
more complicated than I remember, or I've gotten simpler. There were 
also some weird shared library loading things (for dynamic loading of 
drivers) and a lot of Windows-mimicking all around which I didn't want 
to wade into.
 
 Steve Harris