Re: ndbm.h

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:
    Joel> To my knowledge, there is no such thing. If there was, I'm
    Joel> certain UNIX98 would reference it.

There may not be a formal UNIX98 standard, but n?dbm have been around
forever and there is definately a datafile format. {g,n,}dbm are all
different in the number and layout of the files they use.  SleepycatDB
(formally Berkerley db) uses different formats again.  Substituting
one for another at the code/library level does not work if you need to
manipulate pre-exising files.

-- 
Stephen
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