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DBD::Fulcrum  --  a Fulcrum SearchServer interface for Perl 5

   Copyright (c) 1996-1998  Davide Migliavacca and Inferentia, Milano ITALY

   You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
   License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
   If you modify this, and are willing to share, please let me know so that
   I may fold the changes in for the immense benefit of other people.

   PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE README FILE CAREFULLY !

   You can now run perldoc Fulcrum to read the docs.
   In fact, most of the documentation previously found here is now relocated in pod format...

NEWS:
 Version 0.20: this one.

 Version 0.19_03: released as 0.20
	Support for CursorName (statement attribute). Contributed by
	Peter Wyngaard <peterw@anecdote.com>

 Version 0.19_02: Not released.
	Minor fixes.

 Version 0.19_01: Not released.
	Minor doc changes. Tested on HP-UX 10.20 after some time.
	Added $dbh->table_info method for DBI::Shell.

 Version 0.19: Released.
	BE CAREFUL, this version is SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT from the latest
	released (0.12). Check your seat belts before installing _AND_
	keep a DBD-Fulcrum-0.12.tar.gz around for sometime.
	You've been warned.
	Multiple connects bug fixed with info from Loic Dachary.

 Version 0.18: Not released.

	Added $sth->{ful_last_row_id}, contributed by Loic Dachary
	<loic@ceic.com>
	Clean up for test.pl (just a little).

 Version 0.17: prereleased (never on CPAN)
	final polishing before release.


 Version 0.16: mostly rewritten to take advantage of the new DBI
	'xst' templates.
	Truncation behaviour is now rationalized.
	Added DBD::Fulcrum::ful_maxhitsinternalcolumns to allow for
	larger buffers when data truncated is not desired (see docs)


 Version 0.15: minor packaging details. This should be the last version
	not using Driver.xst.

 Version 0.14: Bug fix WRT allocation of buffers for "normal" fields
	(not APVARCHAR) where SET SHOW_MATCHES 'TRUE'.
	Thanks to Roberto Bianchettin <roberto@pisa.iol.it> for finding it.

 Version 0.13: Just README changes, not released.

 Version 0.12: Builds and tests fine under Windows NT 4.0sp3,
	SearchServer 3.5c, DBI 0.92, perl 5.004_57

 Version 0.01-0.11: History.

PLATFORMS:
  Known to work on: SearchServer 2.x and beyond (lately tested only on 3.5)
  on IBM AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.5; Digital OSF/1 3.2c, Digital Unix 4.0c, Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 Sparc, Solaris 2.4 (reported from user), Windows NT 4.0sp3, HP-UX 10.20-11.00.

*BEFORE* BUILDING, TESTING AND INSTALLING this you will need to:

    Build, test and install Perl 5 (at least 5.003, this version developed on 5.005_02)