Connecting To Ascii Text Databases; Configuring Microsoft Text Options (Windows); Configuring Microsoft Text Odbc Options (Unix) - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-ADMINISTRING COLDFUSION SERVER Manual

Chapter 4: Managing Data Sources

Connecting to ASCII Text Databases

ColdFusion lets you access ASCII text databases on both Windows NT and UNIX, via
ODBC drivers.

Configuring Microsoft Text options (Windows)

If ColdFusion Server is installed on a Windows NT server, you can configure ASCII text
files as ColdFusion data sources using an ODBC driver.
ODBC: Microsoft Text Options (Windows)
The following table describes ColdFusion ODBC options for data sources you create
with the Microsoft Text driver.
Microsoft Text ODBC Options
Option
Data Source Name
Description
Database Directory
Extensions List

Configuring Microsoft Text ODBC options (UNIX)

ODBC: MERANT Text Driver Options (Solaris)
The following table describes ColdFusion ODBC options for data sources created with
the MERANT Text driver.
MERANT Text ODBC Options
Option
Data Source Name
Description
Description
A name for your ODBC data source.
Descriptive information about the data source.
The directory where the text files are found.
Lists the file name extensions of the text files on the data source.
To use all files in the directory, enter *.*. To use only those files
with certain extensions, add each extension you want to use.
Description
A name for your data source.
Descriptive information about the data source.
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