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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