ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) (01/31/89)
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 -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.) {amdahl, pyramid, sun, unisoft, uunet}!fai!ronc -or- ronc@fai.com