Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!frksyv!frk
From: frk@frksyv.UUCP (Frank Korzeniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for dbm
Summary: note on use.
Message-ID: <376@frksyv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 06:15:08 GMT
References: <306@twwells.uucp> <315@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: frk@frksyv.UUCP (Frank Korzeniewski)
Organization: Frank Korzeniewski, Consulting
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In article <315@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>Terry Hull, ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu!eecea!terry, sent me a copy of Jon
>Zeeff's, umix!b-tech!zeeff, dbz.c. This is not a complete dbm
>replacement, but it is sufficient for the news software.
>Thanks guys.
>Bill
>{ uunet!proxftl | novavax } !twwells!bill

I have rebuilt news with it and it created lots of tmp files instead of
entering the articles in the new dirs. looking over the code, the dbm init
routine does not create the "history.pag" index file if it does not exist.
YOU must do this and then it all works.