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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: ndbm won't cut it, what now?
Message-ID: <2300@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 90 02:20:23 GMT
References: <1990Nov11.111118.21856@cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  The secret to having multiple keys in a dbm database is to use the
first byte as the key type. It's that easy, and works very nicely
thanks.

  I did some limited testing of dbm and gdbm, and found that while gdbm
kept the file size way down, the build time was a lot longer.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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