Web Matters

In "Web Surveys" (October 1996 Web Project), Jon Udell says that "if you're in need of a lightweight Unix SQL engine to use in conjunction with these, try msql (www.bunyip.com)." First, mSQL (note the correct capitalization) isn't free; it's shareware, and the author deserves all the help he can get to encourage people to pay for it. Your reference doesn't do much to help him get the word out. Second, mSQL is written and distributed by David J. Hughes, not Bunyip. In the early days of mSQL's development, Bunyip made use of it as a back end in a product, and we offered to host the mSQL mailing list, but there's no longer any mention of mSQL on Bunyip's home page. The correct uniform resource locator is http://www.hughes.com.au/software/ .

Jeff Allen
jeff@bunyip.com

Thanks for the interesting article "Web Surveys." I'm using Omnicron Ohttpd server on Windows 95 and both Visual Basic plus ODBC and Perl/CGI to explore some ideas for talking to an Access database. I've been unable to locate odbc.pm. Can you point me in the right direction?

Michael Shellim
mshell@cix.compulink.co.uk

Since I wrote that article, I've upgraded from NT::odbc.pm to Dave Roth's newer and more full-featured Win32::odbc.pm. The Win32::ODBC home page is at http://www.roth.net/odbc/ , and there's an FAQ at http://www.roth.net/odbc/odbcfaq.htm . --Jon Udell, executive editor