[MacPerl] Re: Butperl ready for beta test

[Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>]

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> From: petechen@math.rutgers.edu (Peter Chen)
> 
> I. What's Butperl? [Is it just me, or does this sound funny to you too. :-)]
> 
> Butperl is a Perl5 module that enables perl scripts to access the Butler
> database.  Currently, this only works on Macs.  So this will only be
> useful with MacPerl.

We gave up calling things <foo>perl once we had extensions.
It should be referred to as 'the Butler module'.

> IV. How do I use this?
> 
> Butler.pm provides you with the following functions, if you "use Butler'.
> 
>         &but_connect
>         ...
> 
> V. Bugs and caveats
> 
> The interface is modeled after DBD/DBI specification.

Only *very* loosly it would seem!

Tim.