Actually not semantics. I need to script the program and there is no way to script a GUI app.
I have started using PHP. Not a great solution, extreme overkill, but it does work well.
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:29 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
Oh no, you were perfectly clear. I wrote my post because I don't know
of any CLI tools for windows that do this either, so it would seem that
a decent CLI tool wrapped in a GUI would still be acceptable. I mean,
it's a question of symatics at that point. So, that's why I suggested
some of the GUI tools that have a type your query here window.
Sometimes you just gotta use what you can get. Some of them have
history and all that fancy stuff, they just live inside a GUI app.
Me personally, I switched of Windows long ago due to issues like this.
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:34, Roy Souther wrote:
> CLI = Command Line Interface
> GUI = Graphical User Interface
> WSI = Web Server Interface
>
> I need a CLI app. Sorry I was not clear on this.
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:00, Roy Souther wrote:
> > > I love Linux, any tool you need it has it. Just try to find the most
> > > basic of tools for Windows, what a joke.
> > >
> > > I need an Open Source SQL command line tool for Windows that will let
> > > me script queries to a database over an ODBC connection. It must use
> > > ODBC because it may or may not be PostgreSQL. Some times it will but
> > > the rest of the time I have no idea what is on the other end.
> > >
> > > Most crap I am finding is shareware and everything is GUI. Some stuff
> > > is Open Source but requires Java, not good but still not CLI.
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen such a tool?
> >
> > Not for ODBC. Have you looked at any of the GUIs to see if they have a
> > "type a query here" window in them?
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