Hi Mike, > I considered ODBC (briefly) while writing this. I don't have any good > reasons for not using it, other than an utter unfamiliarity with ODBC. Now > that I've got some working code, I'll take a look at ODBC. Can you > recommend which API(s) I should look at? >From what I understand, the two principle ODBC implementations available for Unix are unixodbc and iODBC. I haven't worked with either enough to know whether one is preferable to the other; it seems that most apps that do ODBC under Unix support both APIs. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer