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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!magic.fr!venise.magic.fr!ded From: Edouard CORREIA <ded@magic.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: dbm or equivalent in BSDi ? Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:43:22 +0000 Organization: Magic NET Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950825130253.3920C-100000@venise.magic.fr> References: <richard-2108951808480001@island.interverse.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venise.magic.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <richard-2108951808480001@island.interverse.com> On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Richard Gilligan wrote: > Many unix systems have a very simple database feature called DBM or NDBM. > Our BSDi 2.0 out of the box does not seem to have this feature and my > 4.4BSD manual for O'Reilly mentions nothing by those names leading me to > wonder if it even exists for BSD. Perl has hooks that make it easy to use > DBM (which has come in very handy when I was working around UNIX(r) System > V Release 4 and IRIX Release 5.2). > Of course there is a basic Database package called DB which provide Btree Hash table and Records access methods. It'is very efficient for a lot of uses and provide memory cache access for a good optimisation. This stuff is largely used under BSDI (the compiled password file, etc...). --------------------------- CTS Informatique - Edouard CORREIA 45 Rue de la Procession - E-mail: ded@magic.fr 75015 Paris (FRANCE) -----------------------