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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It
Message-ID: <2355@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 18:44:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2355
Posted: Wed Sep 18 18:44:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Sep-85 00:31:04 EDT
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

I'd love to make rn run off of a multi-key dbm file.  Who'll rewrite inews?
I wouldn't mind, but I don't think I have the time.  I can't even keep up
with my mail on rn, and I'm also maintaining patch and warp.  In a few days
I plan to post an automatic Configure script generator, and that will take
all the more time.  Every now and then I have to do some "real" work too.

Is this multi-key dbms that was mentioned public-domain, portable, reliable,
and efficient?  How much memory would it steal from a process on a dinky
machine?  How does it do on disk space?  Does it rely on "holes" in files?
How can I get a copy?

Partly yours,

Larry Wall
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