`sql2textfs' is a FUSE filesystem for mounting database tables as text files. Written by Kimon Kontosis in year 2013 for his major paper in Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Copyright (C) 2013, Kimon Kontosis The program `sql2textfs` is a custom file system based on FUSE that lets the user mount a database and view all its tables as files of a directory of the filesystem in a POSIX system. The databased tables are viewed as files but in a specific format: All table entries are converted into lines in a file of text. Columns are separated by tab, so all the data of the table is in a tab-delimited text file. The file format is a form of CSV format. The table header is in the first line of the file. It is a tab-delimited line containing the name and some type-properties of each column. The file system sql2textfs relies on `libsql2text` and `libretranse` which are parts of the same project. `libretranse` is a runtime library that parses and runs programs written in `retranse' - a language based on regular expressions. The configuration file of sql2textfs, which is written in retranse, is essential since much of the convertion functionality lies there and each database type requires a special configuration file. The project sql2textfs, when built, produces the binary file `sql2textmount' which is the program that mounts databases into a directory given a connection string. sql2textfs is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. See LICENSE For sql2textfs documentation see doc/MANUAL For INSTALLATION instructions see doc/INSTALL