[ format manually recovered - alex, your mailer really mangles quoted text ]
In the last episode (Jul 20), alex hopson said:
> From: <sinisa@stripped>
> >alex hopson writes:
> > > It is possible to format data the data sent from the box in any
> > > way. I was thinking maybe I could emulate what the ODBC would
> > > send if I was using outlook. I really need a solution that
> > > doesn't require any more protocols that tcp/ip.
>
> The problem we have is that the actual box will have a small
> (approx16k) chip that we'll program to do the communicating. We could
> get it to send text or something simple. I'm afraid that I'm not
> entirely sure what the native interface is either, if you could
> explain that a bit I would be grateful. Thanks
The native mysql interface is a binary protocol that I doubt you'd be
able to fit easily in 16k. You'd probably be better off writing a
small daemon to run on the same machine as the mysql server, that
listens for plaintext input on another TCP port, then talks to mysql
itself.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@stripped
