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From: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is there a Simple Database Program Out There?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 21:46:37 GMT
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In <6892@milton.u.washington.edu>, wjs@milton.u.washington.edu writes:
>>...
>There are three databases that come with the NeXT.
>...
>The other is DBM, which ships with a lot of unix boxes.  It's fairly
>simple, and lacks command-line utilities, but it gets the job done.

The dbm library was superceded by ndbm(3) and I would guess, from looking at
the db.h include file, that both are implemented as calls into to NeXT's db
library (see below).

>The one I'd recommend is db, which seems to be a NeXT unix enhancement.
>It has command line utilities as well as c library functions to manipulate
>a database.  It's described under man 3 db, and man 1 dbConcatenate.

I'd recommed using the HashFile object from the cs.orst.edu archive as your
means of using 'db' database files -- but I'm obviously biased in the matter.
Also, you really want to look under 'man 1 dbCatenate'.

- Christopher
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