The supplied man-page provides comprehensive documentation, but contains an amazing amount of spelling typos. I ran it through ispell, but, quite possibly, some remain. Please, let me know if you find something, I missed. -mi --- doc/sybtcl.man Thu Dec 28 18:25:29 2000 +++ doc/sybtcl.man Mon Mar 29 17:28:33 2004 @@ -9,3 +9,3 @@ Sybase Open Client (a.k.a. DB-Library) library functions. -Programmers using Sybtcl should be familar with basic concepts of +Programmers using Sybtcl should be familiar with basic concepts of DB-Library programming. @@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ value is passed to the server to display during a process list. -If \fIifile\fR is specified, that file is used to resovle server addresses; +If \fIifile\fR is specified, that file is used to resolve server addresses; if not specified, the normal $SYBASE/interfaces file is used. -If \fIcharset\fR is specified, the charset should reference a vaild +If \fIcharset\fR is specified, the charset should reference a valid character set available on your Sybase installation. @@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ \fILogin-name\fR and \fIpassword\fR are required parameters. All other -parameters are optional postitional parameters. For example, to specify -the \fIifile\fR paramater, \fIserver\fR and \fIappname\fR must +parameters are optional positional parameters. For example, to specify +the \fIifile\fR parameter, \fIserver\fR and \fIappname\fR must also be specified. Optional parameters may be a null string, in which @@ -141,3 +141,3 @@ .I line -The line numer of the procedure generating the message, if any. +The line number of the procedure generating the message, if any. .RE @@ -177,3 +177,3 @@ called to determine if result rows were generated. If \fB-async\fR is omitted, -then sybsql will wait until the server has responed. +then sybsql will wait until the server has responded. Sybsql will return "REG_ROW" if @@ -415,3 +415,3 @@ be opened or a failure in internal DB-Library routines. Common failures -are specifing \fB-nolog\fR when the database does not support nolog; +are specifying \fB-nolog\fR when the database does not support nolog; unable to access a valid text pointer @@ -516,3 +516,3 @@ The dateformat string can contain substitution values or literals. -Substitions are made from the list below; other literals are copied +Substitutions are made from the list below; other literals are copied verbatim. The default value is null, which will format dates a default format. @@ -603,3 +603,3 @@ causes the polling loop to execute more frequently, which may cause -higer CPU usage. +higher CPU usage. .sp @@ -618,3 +618,3 @@ indicates the handle of the last sybtcl command. Handle is set on every -sybtcl command (execpt where an invalid handle is used.) +sybtcl command (except where an invalid handle is used.) .sp @@ -706,3 +706,3 @@ Since each sybtcl command -may invoke several DB-Lib routines, there is a possiblity that +may invoke several DB-Lib routines, there is a possibility that several messages may be received from the server. Sybtcl will @@ -714,3 +714,3 @@ the message text associated with msgno. Since each sybtcl command -may invoke several DB-Lib routines, there is a possiblity that +may invoke several DB-Lib routines, there is a possibility that several messages may be received from the server. Sybtcl will @@ -718,3 +718,3 @@ separating individual messages by newlines. -Output from Transact-SQL PRINT statments are collected in msgtext. +Output from Transact-SQL PRINT statements are collected in msgtext. .TP @@ -766,3 +766,3 @@ values are: "system10" if linked with Sybase System 10 DB-Libs or higher, -"ctcompt" if compiled with the CT-Lib compatiblity library. +"ctcompt" if compiled with the CT-Lib compatibility library. .sp