Re: [WinMac] ODBC and Macs


Hani ElAbed(hani[at]mail.elabed.net)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:09:29 -0500


Greetings.

Thanks for the Info, I do lot's of cross platform database
programming so this was very useful to me.. My question is
why do you need Windows NT server ?? Does "ODBC Router" work
with ODBC data source running on Windows NT Workstation 4.0 ??

Thanks in advance for additional info..

ZMac1@aol.com wrote:
>
> You can make it easy for Macs too. There are ODBC drivers you can add to
> Macs, and some Mac software is ODBC compatible. There's also a product
> from August Software (714-450-2450) called ODBC Router. Here's a
> description from MacWindows.com:
>
> "Sits on a Windows NT Server and enables Mac OS and Windows 95
> applications to access any ODBC database residing on the NT machine or on
> other computers on the network. Mac ODBC applications, including MS
> Office 98 Mac Edition, can access over 265 mainstream database systems
> via both AppleTalk and TCP/IP. ODBC Router routes ODBC requests between
> the NT Server's 32-bit ODBC drivers and computers running August's ODBC
> OverDRIVER, which works with MacODBC on a Mac."

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