[comp.sys.sequent] Sequent Opinions - really `ndbm'

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
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