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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 suppliedby SAP Sybase. It came about due to years of frustration of trying to doreal 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 goodshell, 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 extendand add functionality.

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

Sqsh may be found on the following sites:

https://vonloxley.github.io/sqsh/http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/

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 theGNU General Public License (GPL) and therefore may be freelydistributed under the terms of this license.

Refer to theINSTALL file for directions on installation.