The name of a DBMI driver. Drivers are specified in dbmscap file. Each driver
is specified in dmbscap file on one row in following format:
driver_name:full_path_to_the_driver:driver_description
for example:
odbc:/usr/local/grass5b5/driver/odbc:odbc driver
local:/tmp/dbmi/driver/informix:informix
diego:/usr/ucb/rsh diego /tmp/dbmi/driver/informix:informix
db.connect searches for the dbmscap file in locations in following order:
value of variable DBMSCAP
/etc/dbmscap
/lib/dbmscap
/usr/lib/dbmscap
/usr/local/lib/dbmscap
/usr/local/dbmi/lib/dbmscap
and uses first one found. You can use db.drivers
to list drivers defined in dbmscap file.