Re: MS Office - OS X Lion (10.7)

Brett -
Dredging through a backlog of emails, I found your call for help from last
spring. Did you ever get this to work? It's not my environment, but I too
find the situation not optimal.

Ross
--
Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu
Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166
Connexions http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665
Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005
GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:33:22AM +0100, Maton, Brett wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get the psqlodbc drivers to work with M$ Office (for
> Mac 11) on OS X?
>
> If I compile it and test with unixODBC the command line tools like isql
> work just fine, Office on the other hand refuses to see the driver with
> ODBC Manager or it fails to "something" (blank dialog, no output logs) with
> iODBC's manager.
>
> ActualTech's commercial offering works, although the trial appears to be
> restricted to 3 three rows returned.
>
> I'd much rather figure out how to get the open source drivers working and
> put together a clear 'how-to' than have to pay for a commercial licence.
> $35 Might not be much but it goes against the grain ;)