r10845: 26 Nov 2005 Kevin Rosenberg <kevin@rosenberg.net>

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-CLSQL is a Common Lisp to SQL engine interface written by Kevin M.
-Rosenberg. It is based Pierre R. Mai's excellent MaiSQL package. It
-uses the UFFI (http://uffi.med-info.com) library for compatibility
-with Allegro CL, Lispworks, and CMUCL.
+CLSQL is a Common Lisp to SQL engine interface by Kevin M.
+Rosenberg. It includes both functional and object oriented subsystems
+for data definition and manipulation as well as an integrated symbolic
+SQL syntax.
 
-CLSQL's home is http://clsql.med-info.com.
+CLSQL supports a number of RDBMS and uses the UFFI (http://uffi.b9.com) 
+library for compatibility with Allegro CL, Lispworks, CMUCL, SBCL and
+OpenMCL.
 
-Documentation is availabe as a PDF file in doc/clsql.pdf and
-as HTML files in doc/html/.
+CLSQL has incorporated code from the following projects. At this point
+in 2004, development of has stopped on these incorporated projects.
+  - Pierre Mai's MaiSQL
+  - onShore Development's UncommonSQL
+  - Paul Meurer's SQL/ODBC 
+  - Cadabra's Oracle interface
+
+CLSQL's home is http://clsql.b9.com.
+
+Documentation is available as a PDF file in doc/clsql.pdf and as HTML
+files in doc/html.tar.gz.