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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Sequent Opinions - really `ndbm'
Keywords: ndbm dbmclose wishlist
Message-ID: <1679@fai.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 18:13:14 GMT
References: <306@esosun.UUCP> <1527@fai.UUCP> <438@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1578@fai.UUCP> <47387@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
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Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <47387@uunet.UU.NET> dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (David S. Comay) writes:
>although sequent doesn't ship ndbm, it does support a `enhanced' dbm
>which includes a dbmclose() feature that lets you have more than one
>dbm database at a time by using multiple dbminit() & dbmclose().  the
>version shipped with 4.2 only allowed a single dbm database per
>process.

That's good, but it makes it difficult to port to the Symmetry code that
was written on the Sun.  Some X clients, for instance.

Just shows to go you that 4.2 BSD is old technology.  Time to move up.


				Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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