Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!njin!gould From: gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: How to get UNIX Sybase to serve PC clients? Message-ID: Date: 13 Aug 90 03:12:18 GMT Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 I have been told by multiple sources that Sybase on a UNIX system won't support PCs. I suppose that one reason is that the UNIX version of Sybase supports a proprietary TCP based protocol while the SQL Server on OS/2 uses some XNS based system. If the packets are identical on the inside (after session is establised) we could write a protocol converter. I suppose that any system that supports named pipes and sockets would be a nice protocol conversion platform. How about OS/2 with FTP Software library? Do I HAVE to go through this, or is there an alternative. I'd really hate to have to reverse engineer the protocols if there isn't some good documentation. Any suggestions. -- ************************************************* * Brian Jay Gould - Professional Brain-stormer * *************************************************