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Hi I've experienced some unpleasant behaviour while attempting to connect to an Empress 8.6.2 RDBMS via RODBC 1.2-3 and a freshly minted R 2.6.2.pat on a SLED linux system where a call to odbcConnect() to initiate the odbc connection causes R 2.6.2.pat to segfault. The odbcConnect call is CHANNEL <- odbcConnect("myEmpressDB", uid="myusername", pwd="mysecu...

Hi there, I am using the RODBC library to connect to an Empress database. I have installed the ODBC data source with the server DNs number and port, and named the source "Trawl". It is the odbcDriverConnect that seems to have the problem, and I suspect one of the settings in my Data Source is wrong, or that my syntax to identify the database is wrong....

Fellow Samba-meisters, I'm wondering if anyone can share real-world experience running PC database apps (like M$ Access) with database files shared from a samba server. How well has the record locking proven to work? I will be setting up a small office network for a client w/ a Linux server running samba as a file/print server and 4 or 5 Win95 clients running Office97 apps. This is

Hey y''all, Are any folks planning on taking the ferry from Seattle to Vancouver (via Victoria)? I''ve never done it before so I have no idea how much of an adventure it is. Flights are a $100+ less to Seattle than Vancouver so the price works out the same or a bit less. My plan is to fly to Seattle (from Savannah, GA) on Tuesday to catch the early ferry on Wednesday