Bye! Jonathan
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CCE8E0FC8F174F0FA26670AC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonathan: I wish the best things for you! I think that Informix is loosing a great person and an excelent profesional. We are loosing a great contributor to this group!! Jonathan, sincerely I have a great admiration to you! Jonathan Leffler wrote: } The next release of DBD::Informix, version 0.58, has been uploaded to CPAN. } The timestamp from PAUSE was - Thu Jan 15 21:23:15 1998 UTC. } It will be available worldwide in a day or three. } } Please note the change of contact address. As of 17th January 1998, I do } not actually work for Informix. Email sent to johnl@informix.com will not } be delivered to me -- it will bounce or vanish into the great bit bucket in } the sky (aka /dev/null). } } DBD::Informix is the driver code that enables Perl 5.003 or 5.004 to access } Informix databases via the DBI module (you'll need the code for both DBI } version 0.90 and DBD::Informix). The code is available for download via: } } http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/by-category/07_Database_Interfaces } http://www.arcana.co.uk/technologia/perl/DBI } } New in this release: } * Corrected README file (0.57 had the wrong files released as READMEs; sorry). } * Integrated support for NT into Makefile.PL (with trivial changes elsewhere). } * Amended README to be more stringent on using C compiler to create shared } libraries. } * Fix bug for logged (non-ANSI) databases on BEGIN WORK when AutoCommit Off. } * Amend the place-holder parsing routine to ignore ':alpha' place-holders } because they are syntactically indistinguishable from Informix's } database:table notation. } } Still to do: } * Add support for IUS data types. } * Try to reproduce the problems reported by Kenji Hino <kenji@alcatraz.net> } and then fix them. It is related null blobs and SQL error -608. } * Resolve -R option on Solaris and equivalents for getting path name of } Informix shared libraries into DBD::Informix shared library, so you don't } need as much environment set at run-time. } * Investigate whether using sqlda structures in place of SQL descriptors } makes a significant difference to the performance of DBD::Informix. } * Integrate sqlcmd.sh into the build more thoroughly. Document it. Make } it bomb-proof (for example, it fails horribly if you don't have a '-d' } option on the command line because there isn't a way to connect to a } database. } } Let me know of problems, as usual, and solutions too when you have them. } } Enjoy! } } Jonathan Leffler (j.leffler@acm.org) #include <disclaimer.h> } } PS: Read the README file. Also read the Informix.Licence file. } } @(#)$Id: Announce,v 58.3 1998/01/15 18:52:32 johnl Exp $ --------------CCE8E0FC8F174F0FA26670AC Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Melvin Perez Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Melvin Perez n: Perez;Melvin org: CAM Informatica. S. A. email;internet: cam@codetel.net.do title: Technical Vicepresident tel;work: (809) 686-5574 tel;fax: (809) 686-5467 tel;home: (809) 227-2893 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------CCE8E0FC8F174F0FA26670AC--