[KLUG Members] RE: ODBC Gehenna

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 12 May 2003 19:22:50 -0400


On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 09:08:38AM -0700, Thomas wrote:

> The servername is the name of the Informix server.  NOT the name of the
> computer that is a server hosting Informix.
> 
> The Host Name is the name of the Host computer that IS the server
> Hosting Informix.

Now that's what I call operator overloading. ;-)

That's the problem with great, expressive terms: everyone loves 'em,
everyone uses 'em and they cease to have carefully-defined meanings.

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