KirbyBase 2.2

A small, plain-text, dbms written in Ruby.  It can be used either embedded 
or client/server.  Version 2 is a complete re-write with a completely new
interface.  It is NOT backwards compatible.  If you need backwards
compatibility, please use version 1.6.


*Installation:

Unpack the file you downloaded.  Execute "ruby install.rb" or simply make 
sure kirbybase.rb is somewhere in your Ruby library path.


*Documentation:

Documentation is in manual.html.  Also, RDoc generated documentation is in 
the doc directory.

See kbtest.rb for examples of how to use KirbyBase.


*Manifest:

readme.txt - this file
install.rb - install script
changes.txt - history of changes.
manual.html - documentation
kirbybase.rb - dbms library
kbserver.rb - multi-threaded database server script.
kbtest.rb - test script with examples.
record_class_test.rb - script showing how to have KB return class instances.
csv_import_test.rb - script showing how to have KB import a csv file.
plane.csv - sample csv file used in csv_import_test.rb
doc directory - RDoc generated documentation in html format.


*License:

KirbyBase is distributed under the same license as Ruby.


*Warranty:

I should probably put something more legalese here but let me just say:

KirbyBase carries no warranty!  Use at your own risk.  If it eats your
data, please don't come after me.  :)


That being said, please send any bug reports, suggestions, ideas,
improvements, to:

jcribbs@twmi.rr.com

You can find more info about KirbyBase at:

http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html


Thanks for trying KirbyBase.

Jamey Cribbs
