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From: Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:29:40 -0600
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Subject: Re: Way to retrieve UserName/Password
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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David,

On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 9:37=E2=80=AFPM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, November 22, 2025, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> WHat I'd like to do in my software is to get those parameters and use
>> them in the "Connect To DB" dialog.
>
>
> There is pretty much nothing special about this situation pertaining to P=
ostgreSQL.  What specific challenge are you encountering?  I have to imagin=
e nearly all languages have a module/library that handles this 30+ year old=
 file format.

Also, my understanding is that there is no unified way of writing
"UserId" inside
odbc.ini.
Some use "UserId" and some "UID".
And some might use something else.

Thank you.

>
> David J.