Superb job! :-)

The site pointed to does have software that can do what I need, but it
is commercial and far more expensive than the $200 limit I specified
in the original question. Note that Driver Manager is free, it is the
driver itself that costs money. In one of the comments, freetds was
mentioned which is what I thinkn I will use.

I didn't like the idea of runix being stuck on the answer only with
wget. this is obviously not a web spider application, and more of an
offline browser. I'm sceptic as wheter this will be able to handle my
requirements..

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Excellent answer and works perfectly! Just clarifying the bits and
pieces at the end of the question.

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Very very helpful!

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