# HG changeset patch # User catherine@dellzilla # Date 1237989646 14400 # Node ID 98975ce340ac6047881c4956f2aa5be7ab9f60df # Parent 154c2e44abcebf5c8c7008bc73c1e2342d9e795f more docs changes diff -r 154c2e44abce -r 98975ce340ac docs/source/comparison.rst --- a/docs/source/comparison.rst Tue Mar 24 16:21:16 2009 -0400 +++ b/docs/source/comparison.rst Wed Mar 25 10:00:46 2009 -0400 @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ the history of SQL\*Plus commands issued during the session. SQL\*Plus on UNIX does not provide this feature. You can restore the feature, however, by installing a free GNU tool called `rlwrap`, then invoking SQL*\Plus under it: `rlwrap sqlplus me@instance`. `rlwrap` can also provide cursor-key history to senora, and in fact to any command-line program. -Gqlplus, YASQL, and sqlpython provide cursor-key command history out of the box. +Gqlplus and sqlpytyhon provide cursor-key command history out of the box; Senora and YASQL do also, provided +that the Term::ReadLine::Perl module has been installed (see Installation). In addition, senora and sqlpython have a `history` or `hi` command that gives a numbered list of all commands issued in the session. @@ -748,7 +749,7 @@ $ cpan - cpan> install DBI + cpan> install DBI Term::ReadLine::Perl cpan> force install DBD::Oracle If this is your first time running `cpan`, it will ask you many configuration questions @@ -771,7 +772,7 @@ cpan> install DBI cpan> force install DBD::Oracle - cpan> install Term::ReadKey Text::CSV_XS Time::HiRes + cpan> install Term::ReadKey Text::CSV_XS Time::HiRes Term::ReadLine::Perl Download yasql-1.83.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/yasql/, unzip and untar it, and cd into yasql-1.83. Run `./configure`, `make`, and (as root) `make install`. @@ -800,6 +801,9 @@ $ easy_install pylab +Alternately, a Windows installer is available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlpython, though easy_install +works on Windows as well. + =================== Extending the tools ===================