Bojidar Dimitrov asked:
> 
> So, anyhow, the question stays.  Is it worth it getting MySQL and Perl
> to run on my Win98 machine for the purpose of doing what I have in
> mind.  Does Perl have a nice DB API?  Does anyone have code examples of
> DB access using Perl?
> 
> I can easily do the same thing using C++ and MS Access, but I am an
> anti-Microsoft creature by default.

Perl has a perfectly usable DB API, and works very well with MySQL.
I have several examples.

But before you get too excited, you might want to take a closer
look at the MySQL licensing conditions.   They are even more anti-
Microsoft than you are; MySQL is free on Unix, but costs money if
you want to use it on a Microsoft operating system.

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