Problem with data type conversions and FreeTDS

Hi all,

I had a friend create a table on his M$ SQL server 2000 with just one
row and as many columns as data types. He filled each field with a
different value corresponding to data type. E.g.

bigint, bit, char, datetime, float, money, nvarchar, unique
1111119,1,c,30/04/2003 13:00:19,23.45, 123.45, hello, {F44A-etc-...blah}

Note the Unique identifier in the above example is not the real value I
just couldn't be bothered to write it out in full!

Anyway using the code snippet below works great except when trying to
convert and print the unique ID. What should I be doing to allow all
data types to be printed successfully as with tsql and sqsh?

<snip>

const string& tds::connection::print_field (const int &column) {
   static string str;
   unsigned char *row = results->current_row;
   const int type = results->columns[column]->column_type;
   const int offset = results->columns[column]->column_offset;
   const int size = results->columns[column]->column_cur_size;
   const int conversion_type = tds_get_conversion_type (type, size);

   str.clear ();

   if (tds_get_null (const_cast <unsigned char *> (row), column))
      str = "NULL";
   else {
      CONV_RESULT convert;
      unsigned char *value = &(row[offset]);

      if (is_blob_type (type))
         value = (unsigned char*) ((TDSBLOBINFO *) value)->textvalue;

         if (tds_convert (context, conversion_type, (TDS_CHAR *) value, 
                          size, SYBVARCHAR, &convert) < 0)
            throw tds::error ("Failed to convert row type at column.");

         str = convert.c;
         free (convert.c);
   }

   return str;
}

</snip>

I have tried printing both the C++ tds::string and the converted value*
both fail.

Can anyone help! Plleasse!!

Many thanks

James Vanns

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