Re: ndbm is a mess... What is dbm?

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

> >>>>> "Neal" == Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com> writes:
>     Neal> I tried grabbing the current gdbm and db packages.  We have
> <...>
> 
>  What are gdbm and db?  I've never heard of them.  What are they for?

They are both libraries for "databases" (implementing dictionary
data structures (aka hashes)). 
On a 0.93Rx system, they are part of the C library; on a development
system they are in separate packages (following their separation from
the upstream C library).

Ray
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