I should have done this change long ago, but since appearing on Slashdot, I figured I should update at least this page...
I am very pleased to announce that Michael Peppler, author of SybPerl and DBD::Sybase (amongst others) has offered to become to new maintainer for sqsh and has moved the development off to Sourceforge (where it should have been a long time ago). Thanks Michael!
For the time being, I'll leave this site up as it is, but you will find that the download link will now point you towards Sourceforge now.
Very clever of you to ask...
Sqsh (pronounced skwish) is short for SQshelL (pronounced s-q-shell), it is intended as a replacement for the venerable 'isql' program supplied by 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, it is intended to provide much of the functionality provided by a good shell, such as variables, redirection, pipes, back-grounding, job control, history, command completion, and dynamic configuration. Also, as a by-product of the design, it is remarkably easy to extend and add functionality.
Sqsh was designed with portability in mind and has been successfully compiled on most major UNIX platforms supported by Sybase, such as Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, Dynix, OSF/1, DEC Unix, SCO, NeXT, DG/UX and CP/M (just kidding). It should build relatively easily on most POSIX and X/OPEN compliant systems. Sqsh has also been ported to Windows NT/95 using the Cygnus/Red Hat cygwin porting toolkit.