Msqltcl --   Tcl interface to the Mini SQL (mSQL) database server
             by David J. Hughes

Author:      Hakan Soderstrom, hs@soderstrom.se
Affiliation: Soderstrom Programvaruverkstad AB, Bandhagsvagen 51,
             S-122 42 Enskede, Sweden

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Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Hakan Soderstrom and Tom Poindexter
Additional details at end of this file.
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VERSIONS, PORTS

This is release 1.50 of msqltcl. It has been tested with Tcl 7.3,
Tk 3.6p1, TclX 7.3a-p2; Tcl 7.4b2, Tk 4.0b2, TclX 7.4a-b2, mSQL 1.0.6
under SunOS 4.1.3. Successful ports to several other platforms have
been reported. I would expect msqltcl to run wherever Tcl/Tk and mSQL
succeed.


WHAT IS MSQLTCL?

Msqltcl is an extension to the Tool Command Language (Tcl) that
provides high-level access to a Mini SQL (mSQL) database server. Mini
SQL (mSQL) is a freely available, lightweight database engine.

Msqltcl features:
   -- supports multiple connections to one or more database servers,
   -- supports all Mini-SQL statements,
   -- returns SELECT query results either as Tcl lists, or iterates
      a script over the resulting rows,
   -- accesses information about databases, tables, columns.

The package also contains a useful Mini-Monitor (mmon) written in
Tcl/Tk. It requires TclX and is currently limited to pre-4.0 Tk.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Obviously msqltcl is just a small addition to a much greater work done
by John Ousterhout (Tcl/Tk) and David J. Hughes (mSQL).

Msqltcl is derived from work by Tom Poindexter (tpoindex@nyx.cs.du.edu)
whose Sybtcl and Oratcl are useful patterns for Tcl database extensions.


DOCUMENTATION

Yes, a decent man page.


REQUIREMENTS

You must have Tcl/Tk and Mini SQL.

** Tcl/Tk by John Ousterhout is available from numerous FTP sites. For
one-stop retrieval, look in ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl. You will find
the Tcl/Tk distribution in /tcl/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu, extensions (one
of which is msqltcl) in /tcl/extensions. You may want to get the file
/tcl/MIRRORS to discover a mirror site near you.

The Tcl/Tk Book is "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" by John K. Ousterhout,
Addison-Wesley 1994, ISBN 0-201-63337-X.

** Mini SQL (mSQL) is a freely available, lightweight database engine
developed by David J. Hughes, Bond University, Australia. The source
code can be obtained by FTP from Bond.edu.au:/pub/Minerva/msql.

There is an mSQL mailing list. Join it by sending a message to
msql-list-request@Bond.edu.au.


INSTALLATION

See the file INSTALL.


BUG REPORTS

Although I have made a conscientious effort to provide zero-defect
software and documentation, this release of msqltcl may still contain
blunders of varying magnitudes.

Comments, suggestions, bug reports (maybe even encouragement!) should be
mailed to me at the E-mail address above. Please include some
information about your environment (platform, OS version, Tcl/Tk
version, mSQL version, msqltcl version). Please include enough
information for me to be able to reproduce any suspect behaviour. If you
have a solution to a problem, please include a patch.

I can't guarantee that I will fix your bug, but I'll do my best.


COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Hakan Soderstrom, Enskede, Sweden
and Tom Poindexter, Denver, Colorado

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software
and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice
appear in all copies of the software and related documentation.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL HAKAN SODERSTROM OR SODERSTROM PROGRAMVARUVERKSTAD
AB BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS
OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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