"Michael Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is a Windows thing--but then ODBC is too. The point is that all you need >is some sort of support for the selected OS. If necessary you can hide the >differences in I/O between platforms in low-level VIs. LabVIEW will tell you >what OS you're running under and you can select the correct code to execute >based on that value.
Here you are wrong. ODBC has been ported to other platforms. It did exist in MacOS, although its support there was basically dependant on certain software applications with ODBC support being installed (Filemaker, MS Office, etc). These usually had ODBC licensed from Merant, which had some rights on ODBC as they had at some time acquired the company which had written it originally for MS. For Unix exist two implemenatations, unixODBC and iODBC. The first has more graphical user interface applications supplied and the second used to have a more up to data ODBC implementation. These ODBC interfaces are functionally and API wise almost exactly the same as the MS ODBC implementation on Windows. There are also some commercial database vendors offering ODBC drivers for Unix for their databases. Of course there are also Open Source ODBC driver projects for most major databases and quite a few Open Sources databases itself. Rolf Kalbermatter CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
