Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!moraes
From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News patch of 23-Jul-1989
Message-ID: <89Jul23.212453edt.10393@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <1989Jul23.044736.387@utzoo.uucp> <8822@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 89 01:25:52 GMT

tpf@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Friedel) writes:

>I though that dbz was a transparent replacement to dbm, which C News
>supports.  I apologize for not being more up to date.

dbz is not quite transparent - unlike dbm, it requires the
actual text file around for verifying that the hashed localtion
actually contains the key it is looking for (dbm stores a copy of the
key, dbz does not)