How to use Instant Client 10G DSN-less feature with SQLDriverConnect?

We have been trying to use the DSN-less feature of the latest Instant Client, instantclient10_2, with the ODBC programming interface using SQLDriverConnect.
We are getting ORA-12560 errors and believe that our connect string isn't correct. The docs don't provide an example or indicate the correct keyword(s) to use.
The help file's "Format of the Connection String" page doesn't provide any clues and DBQ is definitely not working.
What format should be used?
Thanks

...So I take it that I'll have to have the server
export to csv or a db format that will provide a
connection on a stock xp or vista box.I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that you'd export the data on the server to a CSV file, copy that to a network share, and have your application create an ODBC connection to the CSV file?
Are you wedded to installing absolutely nothing else? The Oracle Instant Client, for example, just requires copying 3 or 4 DLLs to a directory & setting some environment variables in order to install a minimal Oracle client and ODBC driver (though it won't work with the Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle). That's normally a pretty minimal burden for an application to include in its installation scripts.
Justin

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