Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News patch of 23-Jul-1989
Message-ID: <1989Jul23.225608.16734@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul23.044736.387@utzoo.uucp> <8822@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 22:56:08 GMT

In article <8822@pyr.gatech.EDU> tpf@pyr.UUCP (Tom Friedel) writes:
>>... the major pending issue, dbz.  
>
>I though that dbz was a transparent replacement to dbm, which C News
>supports.  I apologize for not being more up to date.

At present we supply it, but as "contributed software" with an explicit
warning that we have not examined it or tested it.  The "pending issue"
is cleanup work, careful testing of the option of keeping the files in
core for major speed improvements, and integration so that it becomes
our "official" dbm replacement, superseding the slow kludge we supply now.
I would really like to get this done but just haven't had time.
-- 
1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo.  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1969-1989: 20 years of nothing.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu