Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!anderson From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to use Sybase? Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 91 18:48:27 GMT References: Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Lines: 30 In-reply-to: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu's message of 31 Dec 90 02:25:24 GMT Mea maxima culpissima. When I finally figured out hwere to go to RTFM, I discovered that all the information I needed was there all along. In the meantime, in my efforts to get SQL-server to work, I spent some time reading the manuals, but everything referred to an Installation Manual for directions on how to get it up in the first place. Not having one, I eventually worked out what was going on by looking at the various shell scripts, and got it up. Shortly after that, I found the Release Notes file (to which there's no pointer in the Documenation/Sybase directory), which is really the "Installationa Manual". I'm consoled by the fact that if I'd just followed those instructions, in fact it wouldn't have worked, for reasons that would have taken me about as long to figure out as I had actually spent. Anyway, my apologies for implying that the cube didn't come with everything it was supposed to, or that BusinessLand (or NeXT) short-changed me. Once you work out where things are, this machine turns out to have an incredible range of stuff on it. Oh, one more thing. There was a description in the latest NeXTAnswers of what will happen with Sybase under 2.0. I'm still surprised not to have heard more discussion of the (a) unbundling and (b) incompatibility of the present SQL-server under 2.0. And does anyone have a more recent projection of when the 4.0.1 server will actually be ready? I'd hate to put the effort into figuring out how the thing works, and then have my upgrade arrive and make that knowledge useless... Steve Anderson