Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:31714 comp.unix.wizards:25766 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: dbm docs? Message-ID: <19336@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 27 May 91 14:46:01 GMT References: <1991May18.203633.21387@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <12177:May2521:45:5991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cat Emporium and BBQ Grill Lines: 20 X-Clever-Slogan: Help Prevent Robbery. Tax the IRS. In article <12177:May2521:45:5991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >In article 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. If we could get some kind soul to re-post the sources to a newsgroup near you, it would probably be out there a bit faster. Without the full directory pathname, it isn't possible even to get it with BITFTP or whatever. -- John F. Haugh II | Distribution to | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 255-8251 | GEnie PROHIBITED :-) | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "If liberals interpreted the 2nd Amendment the same way they interpret the rest of the Constitution, gun ownership would be mandatory."