Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Message-ID: <9298@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 16 May 88 22:48:12 GMT References: <1596@looking.UUCP> <9164@e.ms.uky.edu> <1104@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 30 In article <1104@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >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. You're right about it being run-able on SysV ... I have it running on a couple of SysV systems here, no changes to the source at all. It doesn't exist on SysV because it doesn't come as part of the standard distribution. I think it didn't come into being until after V7 ... SysV is derived from V6 -> PUB/Unix -> SysIII, and lacks a number of things added in V7. But enough history. There's those PD DBM routines that are in (I think) alt.sources, but I haven't looked at them yet. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.