Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Message-ID: <1104@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: 16 May 88 09:48:08 GMT References: <1596@looking.UUCP> <9164@e.ms.uky.edu> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 22 Posted: Mon May 16 05:48:08 1988 In article <9164@e.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: > In article <1598@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >> It's a hash lookup, after all. Quite fast. > Hmmm... pre-supposing that hash lookups exist everywhere. Let me > remind you that dbm doesn't exist on SysV. Why not? I see no excuse for this. I just skimmed the source, and I expect it would take me no more than an afternoon to make it work on SV, most of that because of my unfamiliarity with SV. I am certain it could be rewritten to work there. Can someone who knows tell us why dbm or equivalent doesn't exist for SV? Seems to me it isn't much of a "standard" if it doesn't even have a database library. (But then, true Berkloids have always known that. "From now on, consider it sub-standard.") der Mouse uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu