Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC 16 bit support

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Of course it would be nice if it supported the other platforms whith
> ODBC capabilitries: alse Macs and UNIX.

There's no reason it can't.  You write the driver using a common set of
functions from the std C or C++ libs.  ANYTHING that is OS specific is
called using a generic name (eg. AllocateSomeMemory()) and have the
function in an OS specific file and it can call the correct function for
that OS.  I've written a number of things this way and do my testing and
debugging of the main routines in OS/2.  Quickly write a file to handle
the windows 16 and 32 and the unix stuff and compile on the machines it's
going to.  Unless I add things that require additions to the OS specific
files, I may not need to touch them again and the main app is updated
easily.

Vince.
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