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From: tecot@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Edward Tecot)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: data bases such as /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <448@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 15:25:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 15:25:58 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 23:59:43 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I am working on a program which will have a data base similar to /etc/passwd
or /etc/inittab.  Are there any libraries which support these type of files?
Specifically, I would like to be able to search for a record based on a
certain key, and ask for the nth field in that record.