                          Welcome to SQSH

What is SQSH?
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Sqsh (pronounced skwish) is short for SQshelL (pronounced s-q-shell),
it is intended as a replacement for the venerable 'isql' program supplied
by SAP Sybase.  It came about due to years of frustration of trying to do
real work with a program that was never meant to perform real work.

Sqsh is much more than a nice prompt (a la 'dsql', from David B. Joyner),
it is intended to provide much of the functionality provided by a good
shell, such as variables, aliasing, redirection, pipes, back-grounding,
job control, history, command substitution, and dynamic configuration.
Also, as a by-product of the design, it is remarkably easy to extend
and add functionality.

Sqsh was developped by Scott C. Gray, and is currently maintained by
Michael Peppler (mpeppler@peppler.org) and Martin Wesdorp
(mwesdorp@users.sourceforge.net).

Availability
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Sqsh may be found on the following site:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/

Licensing
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99% of the software that we, the authors of Sqsh, use is free,
therefore we like to give back in kind. Sqsh is held under the
GNU General Public License (GPL) and therefore may be freely
distributed under the terms of this license.

Building and Installing
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Refer to the INSTALL file for directions on installation.

