[GRASSLIST:6695] Re: Does ODBC work in Grass 6 ?

[Lorenzo Moretti]

Hi Hamish

>  > A simple question:
>>  Does ODBC work in Grass 6 ?
>>  If yes, which platform please...
>>
>>  OSX platform: doesn't work (dbmi: protocol error -
>>  http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3154)
>>
>>  Now there are mysql, pg and dbf drivers but there are many other dbms
>>  and ODBC is a good option. In old 5.4 ODBC worked.
>
>
>along with that, did anyone ever get GRASS 6 working with FileMaker on
>the Mac, out of the box without having to buy 3rd party plugins?
>

My question is if ODBC in Grass 6 works in Linux or Cygwin. Someone 
in these platforms works with ODBC in GRASS 6 ?

The other question is FileMaker Pro 7. Now FileMaker Pro 7 has a 
structure like a true SQL database with Tables inside the file. This 
is a big step for using FMP in new fields and, more interesting, 
FileMaker Pro 7 (under Mac OS X and Windows) has two free extension 
to enable FMP 7 to work like ODBC source: xDBC extension for sharing 
and ODBC driver. These extensions are free. In normal FMP 7 (not 
Advanced Server edition) is enabled only local sharing in the same 
computer.
But there is a problem to link GRASS with FileMaker Pro 7. The ODBC 
driver for FMP 7 is built with iODBC (default in OS X) and Grass 
works with unixODBC.

Bye


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