From any Sun workstation or server, you should be able to run the
following command to connect to the database server:

mysql -h db.eg.bucknell.edu -u username -p dbname

(NOTE: You will be prompted for the password)

To be able to use this command, I modified your account's ".cshrc" file
appropriately.

The website for MySQL is:

www.mysql.com

and documentation is at:

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html

C, C++, and Java programming documentation is at:

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Clients.html#C

and 

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql++/index.html

and

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector/j/en/index.html

respectively.