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- RiscOs gdbm
-
- Port by S.W.Ellacott@brighton.ac.uk
-
- The GNU license and other info from the original UNIX is in the GNUstuff
- directory.
-
- Gdbmlib is the gdmb routines made into a RISCOS library. They can be linked
- and called in the normal fashion. The module gdbm calls the main routines by
- SWI numbers (these are officially allocated by Acorn). It is mainly for
- use by Perl, but of course can be used from any language. For example, you
- could use it to implement associative arrays in BASIC!
-
- The manual for the routines in Impression and TeX formats is in Docs. This
- does not cover the module itself: look at the SWI definitions in c.gdbm
- and cmhg.gdbm_head for these. Or examine the Perl package RDBM_File.
-
-
- Not implemented: file locking (mode commands are ignored). Known bug: the
- 'force overwrite' open mode does not work. To overwrite an existing
- database you must delete it first, and then open normally.
-
- Steve Ellacott
-