From: David Gadbois
Subject: Re: LISP<->ODBC databases, how?
Date: 
Message-ID: <4hidg8$cku@katie-kaboom.cs.utexas.edu>
Kenneth R. Knight <······@sphinx.biosci.wayne.edu> wrote:
>What I'm looking for is any information that is available on how to
>interface ODBC-aware databases (like FoxPro) with LISP environments (MCL
>on the Mac, an ODBC development SDK exists for the Mac from Apple) and
>Allegro Common LISP on the PC.

You could just write a simple network protocol that shoves SQL and
meta queries at the database server and gets results back.  I'm
surprised that this hasn't been standardized yet.  I haven't even seen
a protocol spec for anything that talks ODBC, which would be really
handy.

--David Gadbois