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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Pattern matching of a large dbm file (slow indexing)
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Date: 8 May 91 03:40:16 GMT
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Brandon S. Allbery writes:

>dbm/ndbm have their place, but that place isn't and
>isn't intended to be as a replacement for a regular database manager.

I know, and I thought I did say something like that. ;-) Maybe Larry may
want to look into Marcus J. Ranum's b+tree package as a more general-purpose
database package for more general-purpose uses that perl users seem to want.

oz