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From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Flat file handler for UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.032545.16979@osh3.OSHA.GOV>
Date: 24 Apr 91 03:25:45 GMT
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In <24375@well.sf.ca.us> drlove@well.sf.ca.us (David R. Love) writes:

>Does anyone know of a flat-file handler, i.e. a quasi-database that 
>works with flat ASCII files for simple retrievals and reports, and 
>that is UNIX-based?  Thanks in advance for any information. Dave Love

Sounds like it's possible a job for dbm or dbz if the file could get
large.  I think most *nix's supply a version of dbm and dbz is in,
hmmm... let's see, it was either C News or the NN news reader, I can'r
remember.

If the files are going to be reasonably small Perl (from Larry Wall)
might be an option.  Not that Perl can handle large files (as Larry
says), just that it might be slow if the file was huge.
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