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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: dbm docs?
Message-ID: <12177:May2521:45:5991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 21:45:59 GMT
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In article <OZ.91May23114335@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca> oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
> If you need a very nice and fast hashing package with full dbm/ndbm
> capabilities, you should get the berkeley hash package, ftpable from
> postgres.berkeley.edu as bsd_db.tar.Z. This package includes a btree
> library as well.

Yeah. This package makes entire mobs of VMS users shut up about the lack
of standard UNIX file formats. With any luck it'll be available in most
UNIX systems in five years.

---Dan