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Article #746Re: Sequent Opinions - really `ndbm'
From: Ronald O. Christian
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1989 18:13
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1989 18:13
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!fai!ronc 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) Distribution: usa Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc. Lines: 18