RE: [PHP] Mail Function

2002-04-03 Thread Mark Roedel
Have you verified that the mail settings in your php.ini are correct? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA

RE: [PHP] PHP - mssql

2002-03-20 Thread Mark Roedel
necessarily have any correlation to the contents of the result set -- it'll only return false if there's an error in your query (and a query can be error-free and still not return data). For what you're doing, you'll probably want to take a look at mssql_num_rows(). --- Mark Roedel

RE: [PHP] How do I get htaccess files to take effect?

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Roedel
or directories in question. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#allowoverride --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA

RE: [PHP] How do I get htaccess files to take effect?

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Neil Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:36 AM To: Mark Roedel Cc: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I get htaccess files to take effect? Thanks for the reply Mark, I am fairly new to this :) Here is a snippet

RE: [PHP] add on's to php

2002-01-31 Thread Mark Roedel
much of an issue it really needs to be, though. Are you running into people who are surprised that your programs won't work on their server? (Could this mean that you need to take a look at how clearly the requirements are communicated?) --- Mark Roedel | A modern US Navy cruiser now

RE: [PHP] PHP Graphics Support

2002-01-31 Thread Mark Roedel
still end up with my previous version of the PHP binary. A 'make clean' (and, sometimes, an 'rm /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so') followed by another make/make install is usually enough to set this straight. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer

RE: [PHP] strerror and PHP 4.1.1

2002-01-28 Thread Mark Roedel
at your own risk. It looks as if the function has, in fact, been renamed to socket_strerror() for versions of PHP = 4.1.0, although the same warning apparently applies. --- Mark Roedel | You know, Hobbes, some days even Systems Programmer| my lucky rocketship underpants LeTourneau

RE: [PHP] Passing variables with include()

2002-01-14 Thread Mark Roedel
. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e

RE: [PHP] database with php code

2001-12-07 Thread Mark Roedel
I vaguely remember there being something about this in the user notes at http://php.net/eval If I remember correctly, it was something along the lines of adding a ? to the beginning of your string, and a ? to the end. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh

RE: [PHP] 1 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/guestbook.php on line 112

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Roedel
/guestbook.php on line 112 Where is your $database variable getting its value? --- Mark Roedel | Nothing in life is so bad that it cannot be Systems Programmer| made much, much worse by the addition of LeTourneau University |lots of spikes and razors. Longview, Texas, USA

RE: [PHP] SQL in Function

2001-11-26 Thread Mark Roedel
into your function as parameters or declared as global). Specifically, in your case, the $db variable referenced in your mysql_query() call doesn't appear to have a value that's local to this function. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer

RE: [PHP] First CGI, then PHP

2001-11-15 Thread Mark Roedel
://dig and PHP, see the Search This! article at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Search_This/ It's written for PHP3, but as I recall everything worked pretty much the same when I moved from PHP3 to PHP4. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems

RE: [PHP] Looking for security annoucements

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Roedel
... What version of phpBB? I know there were a number of security fixes in the last few releases (current looks to be 1.4.4)... --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University

RE: [PHP] Problem with date_format() in indirect MySQL query...

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Roedel
the formats instead. Does anyone have any idea why, and any idea what I can do to rectify this? TIA! :) Perhaps a quick re-read of the date_format() section of http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html is in order? (Hint: the % characters mean something.) --- Mark Roedel

RE: [PHP] Problem writing to file, can't find the error

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Roedel
?) --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

RE: [PHP] Problem with fopen() when php is in safe_mode

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Roedel
the file in that same directory. Try changing the fopen line to $fd = fopen(test/$file,r); Or $fd = fopen(/home/d5051/public_html/test/$file,r); --- Mark Roedel | The most overlooked advantage to owning a Systems Programmer| computer is that if they foul up there's

RE: [PHP] Help with an error I can't find!

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Roedel
variables from inside a function. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA| -- John Powell -- PHP

RE: [PHP] I cannot figure this one out! I'm going crazy! :)

2001-10-29 Thread Mark Roedel
, $y, $x2, $y2, $color) (Also in your other function definition.) --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA | -- John

RE: [PHP] apache1.3.22 won't start with php4.0.6

2001-10-29 Thread Mark Roedel
but when I load php4.0.6 it won't run. Does it give you any messages when it fails to run? Put anything useful in your Apache error logs? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University

RE: [PHP] help!! ¡¡ayuda!!

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Roedel
. If they're not there, I believe your copy of PHP will need to be rebuilt to get them. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA

RE: [PHP] Update Query - Urgent

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Roedel
happen. but when i echo the sql string and copy and paste it in my mysql client window, the update happens like it should! After the update fails, does an 'echo mysql_error()' tell you anything useful? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer

RE: [PHP] format date

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Roedel
what circumstances it will do so...it might only do it, for example, if you insert a NULL value (which is not the same as an empty string). If not, you could try using the now() function in your insert query instead of specifying a '$date' value. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has

FW: [PHP] format date

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Roedel
what circumstances it will do so...it might only do it, for example, if you insert a NULL value (which is not the same as an empty string). If not, you could try using the now() function in your insert query instead of specifying a '$date' value. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has

RE: [PHP] Warning: Sybase message: Incorrect syntax near 't'.

2001-10-01 Thread Mark Roedel
If I'm remembering right, Sybase would prefer to see this as Problem Title : Doesn''t work (That is, a single-quote within a string that you're passing off to Sybase should be escaped by another single-quote, not by a slash.) --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh

RE: [PHP] what does this mean?

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Roedel
] = ; It means, in this case, that it doesn't think that $errorMsg is an array. And that, in turn, makes me think that you've probably already done something with the $errorMsg variable...perhaps assigned it a string value? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh

RE: [PHP] PHP parser BUG - comments

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Roedel
the ); And since the ? on that line ends the current code block... /*print( ?php print( 'aaa' ); ? );*/ ? ...then these two lines would not be processed by PHP at all, but would be passed to the browser as text. So it appears to me it's working as documented, if not 100% intuitively... --- Mark Roedel

RE: [PHP] PHP isn't reading the php.ini

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Roedel
with a set of default values that get used if it doesn't see a php.ini in the directory that it was expecting, or if a particular option isn't specified in the file that's there. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he

RE: [PHP] error message

2001-09-22 Thread Mark Roedel
just below, it says that it is undefined: if(!submit) { Try changing this to if (!$submit) { --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview

RE: [PHP] Is it a mysql AND/OR php BUG???

2001-09-12 Thread Mark Roedel
be using $decode_str instead of $encode_str in the first line of this function? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA

RE: [PHP] what will be the output for this pgm?

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Roedel
=$HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTP_REFERER]; echo $foo; ? For me it is printing the blank value. That's what I'd expect, if you're running that script directly. The referrer variable generally only gets a value if you reached the script by clicking on a link. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who

RE: [PHP] MDB

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Roedel
anybody knoes if this will be fixed soon? Is there another source for the ODBCSocketServer server? http://odbc.sourceforge.net/ --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained

RE: [PHP] What is it with _vti?

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Roedel
, be recreated if you publish your site again using FrontPage.) --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell

RE: [PHP] Problems compiling with Apache 2.0 Alpha 22

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Roedel
the output I get when I run the apxs that came with Apache 1.3.20. Are you really *really* sure you're pointing to the right copy of apxs? --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University

RE: [PHP] Is this a bug?

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Roedel
digits is a common value...Never trust floating number results to the last digit, and never compare floating point numbers for equality. If you really need higher precision, you should use the arbitrary precision math functions or gmp functions instead. --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he

RE: [PHP] new one is it ??

2001-08-13 Thread Mark Roedel
who might be able to do something about it.) --- Mark Roedel | Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer| at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained. Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell -- PHP General

RE: [PHP] PHP 4 released date

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Roedel
release. The first PHP4 Beta came out July 19th, 1999; the 4.0.0 release was May 22nd, 2000; and the current (4.0.6) release was June 23rd, 2001. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster | My schedule is already full. LeTourneau

RE: [PHP] 3rd include

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Roedel
to match what you're describing... --- Mark Roedel | This is the perversity of software. It Systems Programmer| is *always* more complex than you LeTourneau University | anticipate, even when you know this and Longview, Texas, USA | compensate for it. --Robert Martin -- PHP

RE: [PHP] 3rd include

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Roedel
themselves, not in losing their contents. If that's what you're referring to, see bug#11362 - per Zeev, the current CVS (as well as PHP 4.0.7 when it's released), has changed to a behavior that should be more likely to do WhatTheScriptProgrammerMeant in most cases. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] 3rd include

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Drew P. Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:19 PM To: Mark Roedel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] 3rd include You're right. It is not discuessed there. My memory served me incorrectly. In index.php (the file

RE: [PHP] 3rd include

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Drew P. Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:14 PM To: Mark Roedel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] 3rd include If a file is included from within a function, this would limit the variable cope of this file

RE: [PHP] Insecurity with PHP authorization

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Roedel
projects here with good results. You can pick up a copy from the contrib downloads at mysql.com. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster | My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University | -- Henry

RE: [PHP] Syntax

2001-08-04 Thread Mark Roedel
problems with statements: I have: [stuff snipped] IT DOESNT WORK! In what way doesn't it work? Do you get an error message (if so, what does it say?) or just not the result you were expecting? --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer

RE: [PHP] URGENT!!! Can't start Apache with php4 and mysql

2001-08-02 Thread Mark Roedel
)... --- Mark Roedel | The most overlooked advantage to owning a Systems Programmer| computer is that if they foul up there's no LeTourneau University | law against whacking them around a little. Longview, Texas, USA | -- Owen Porterfield -- PHP General Mailing

RE: [PHP] Trouble creating a list on months

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Roedel
this on July 31st, that means your mktime call was trying to build timestamps for February 31st (which is actually in March), April 31st (actually in May), and so on. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already

RE: [PHP] Connecting PHP to SQL Server

2001-07-30 Thread Mark Roedel
functions for you to use. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

RE: [PHP] Syntax Eyes

2001-07-25 Thread Mark Roedel
going to be expecting a single file in response to a single request...) --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger echo

RE: [PHP] Syntax Eyes

2001-07-25 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Clayton Dukes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:42 AM To: Mark Roedel; Php-General Subject: Re: [PHP] Syntax Eyes I have a row in sql that is binary data (a jpeg) I need to echo that data to a table on the web page in the form

RE: [PHP] URGENT... NEED HELP!!!

2001-07-24 Thread Mark Roedel
a little chat with your server admins. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

RE: [PHP] Why wont this work?

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Roedel
)); Unless my counting skills have gone downhill lately, this line has more )'s than ('s. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster | My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University | -- Henry Kissinger

RE: [PHP] Single Digit in Double digit column

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Roedel
information on what you did. My first thought, though, would be to take a closer look at your query to see if you're perhaps filtering out more than you expected. Perhaps if you posted that, along with whatever parts of your source code seem relevant... --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] Networking

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Roedel
bet is going to be to get a copy of Sharity or Samba installed and mount the remote-machine resources so that you can treat them as local resources. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full

RE: [PHP] bug?

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Roedel
might be able to look over your code and see the results of running it? --- Mark Roedel | The most overlooked advantage to owning a Systems Programmer| computer is that if they foul up there's no LeTourneau University | law against whacking them around a little. Longview, Texas

RE: [PHP] sql query successful

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Roedel
that...) If what you're really looking for is whether there were any rows returned by the query, then you'll want to look into the mysql_num_rows() function. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full

RE: [PHP] sql query successful

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Roedel
) An assignment operation will return the value that was assigned. Thus, if we have if ($sql = mysql_query($query_string)) and the mysql_query call returns a non-false value, the entire expression will evaluate to true. --- Mark Roedel | The most overlooked advantage to owning

RE: [PHP] sql query successful

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:36 PM To: Mark Roedel; php-general Subject: Re: [PHP] sql query successful What about when DELETING from a table??? It always returns true. Example...the highest ID in this table

RE: [PHP] Problem about PHP

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Roedel
in the directory where PHP is installed. That should, I think, give you most of the information you need to get started. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster | My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University

RE: [PHP]I'm puzzled. TEXTAREA related.

2001-07-12 Thread Mark Roedel
write the new data out to the file 3rd request: script displays textarea with updated contents So...I'd expect the answer is to make sure you're updating the file *before* you look at its contents. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems

RE: [PHP] webmail

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Roedel
classes for POP3 interaction using PHP's socket functions at http://px.sklar.com/section.html?section_id=10 --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University

RE: [PHP] What does this error mean?

2001-06-30 Thread Mark Roedel
accordingly. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e

RE: [PHP] FILE () STRIPS BLANKS FROM THE ARRAY - HOW CAN I STOP IT

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Roedel
a simple case of the web browser collapsing whitespace when displaying an HTML page? (Hint: view source is your friend when you're wanting to see exactly what the output of your script was.) --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster

RE: [PHP] Best Practice-HTML In Database

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: John Monfort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 5:08 PM To: Mark Roedel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Best Practice-HTML In Database Yes, I will need to provide searching capabilities. Basically, I'm creating

RE: [PHP] opening files

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Roedel
presented at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php If you're just wanting something quick and simple, you might find the file() function particularly useful. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My

RE: [PHP] why isn't get_browser() not working?

2001-04-30 Thread Mark Roedel
, and that your copy of PHP is configured properly to be able to locate it. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full. LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger -- PHP

RE: [PHP] Best Practice-HTML In Database

2001-04-30 Thread Mark Roedel
) in the database ? or 2) Insert a URL in the database field, that points to the HTML page? why? Will you ever want to do database-ish things with the contents of the page? (Allow somebody to search for words or phrases in the body, for example?) --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] Sorry - Way OT but I need help

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Roedel
his within .htaccess? I've tried everything and all I ever get is an Internal Server Error when the .htaccess file is in place... :/ I've found that my web server's error logs usually say interesting and useful things when i get an "Internal Server Error" message. Any clues there? ---

RE: [PHP] Array problem

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Roedel
which I wish to merge, but I want to EXCLUDE duplicate values. Any suggestions, as my numerous attempts have proved unsuccessful. I expect my approach would probably be to merge the two arrays together, then call array_unique() on the result. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] equivalent of asp's %= strTest %

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Roedel
"" If you've got asp-style tags enabled in your PHP configuration (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.asp-tags for more info) then the syntax turns out to be just the same (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php for more info on that.) --- Mark Roed

RE: [PHP] Why does it work this way?

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Roedel
++; results in $str storing the value "b". It's $str = "z"; $str++; that results in "aa" being stored in $str. (This behavior was, in fact, what started the thread you replied into.) --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || "There cannot be

[PHP] Why does it work this way?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Boget, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:12 AM To: Mark Roedel Subject: RE: [PHP] Why does it work this way? Because "z"+1 turns out to be "aa" (which, if you ask me, makes about as much sense as any of the a

RE: [PHP] phpInfo() displays Local and Master configuration values.

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Roedel
;Master" values. However, they can be overridden by configuration settings made in location-specific sections of your web server config (for a particular virtual server or group of directories) or (if allowed) in .htaccess files throughout your directory tree. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL

RE: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Roedel
freetds.org), and then configuring PHP "--with-sybase" --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || "There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full." LeTourneau University ||-- Henry Kissinger --

RE: [PHP] separate php.ini files

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Roedel
for each copy of the site by using php configuration directives in the relevant sections of your httpd.conf. --- Mark Roedel | "I know the answer! The answer lies within the Systems Programmer| heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve?!? LeTourneau University | I thin

RE: [PHP] dates from db

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Roedel
in your query to specify what information you'd like displayed from a date/time field, and how you'd like it presented. --- Mark Roedel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || "There cannot be a crisis next week. Systems Programmer / WebMaster || My schedule is already full." LeTourneau

RE: [PHP] PHP vs. FreeTDS

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Roedel
. Because we sometime move the website from unix to windows and back. So, it is more reliable that way. If you're using the odbc functions, then what's the purpose of FreeTDS? --- Mark Roedel| "A wise man once told me that everything in Systems Programmer | life is either a l