RE: [INTERFACES] Re: NEW ODBC DRIVER

One word 'BASIC'.
    -DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Sbragion Denis [SMTP:infotecn@tin.it]
> Sent:    Monday, May 11, 1998 11:15 AM
> To:    Byron Nikolaidis; Jose' Soares Da Silva
> Cc:    interfaces postgres
> Subject:    Re: [INTERFACES] Re: NEW ODBC DRIVER
>
> Hello,
>
> At 08.35 11/05/98 -0400, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
> >As for the BOOL problem, I tried to return it as a SQL_BOOL, but
> Access
> >displayed it as 0=FALSE, and (-1)=TRUE.  Why does TRUE translate to a
> -1, I
> >have no idea.  But for that reason, I chose to make it a character
> type
> >instead.
>
> This is an MS brain damage implementation of Booleans. It is used this
> way
> starting from MS Access 1.0 up to VB 5.0. I don't know why MS decided
> to
> use this convention in the early MS Access 1.0 age but for
> compatibility
> reason they had to retain it up to the most recent version of their
> development programs.
>
> Bye !
>
>     Dr. Sbragion Denis
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