Re: Problem with freebcp and fixed text output

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:09:24 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Modesto Sevilla wrote:
> I am evaluating freebcp as a replacement to bcp (Sybase) while 
> connecting to MS Sql Server 2008.  My problem is that when I bcp out a 
> table even if I specify a format file, the output does not come out in 
> fixed length as it did with bcp. 

I think -- I expect! -- that if you install the latest snapshot you'll see
the behavior is corrected.  From ChangeLog: 

Fri Jul 10 14:01:28 EDT 2009    JK Lowden <[email protected]>
        * src/dblib/bcp.c pad nullable CHAR written to hostfile. 

See the ML discussion around that time.  

HTH.

--jkl