announce: netnews ODBC driver

nnODBC driver -- an free(under GPL) netnews ODBC driver, now available(source and doc) at: ftp://ftp.uu.net//pub/database/perl-interfaces/other/iODBC/nnodbc-0.3.shar.Z ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/other/iODBC/nnodbc-0.3.shar or other mirror sites near you. Ke Jin <kejin@empress.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copying-Policy: Freely Redistributable under GNU General Public License Description: nnODBC is an netnews ODBC driver portable to almost all platforms(include all unices and Win95, NT, etc). It was developed mainly as an example driver for testing iODBC driver manager(or other ODBC driver manager) on unix platforms. nnODBC driver support selected ODBC functions in ODBC core level, level 1 and level 2 as well as SQL DML(i.e. SELECT/INSERT/DELETE) statements(for searching/posting/ canceling netnews group article(s)). Refering its README file for detail. Platforms: SunOS (Sparc) 4.1.x HP/UX (s700/s800) 9.x, 10.x HP/UX (s300/s400) 9.x IBM AIX 3.x, 4.x Solaris (Sparc) 2.x Solaris (PCx86) 2.x SGI Irix 5.x, 6.x AT&T GIS (NCR)SVR4 3.x UnixWare SVR4.2 1.x, 2.x Digital Unix(DEC OSF/1) 3.x, 4.x FreeBSD 2.x BSDI BSD/OS 2.x Linux ELF 1.2.x, 1.3.x (Slackware 2.3, Red hat 2.0) SCO OpenServer 5.x Concurrent MAX/OS 1.x DG/UX 5.x