The Atari Compendium/The Atari Compendium (Toad Computers) (1994).iso/files/prgtools/mint/lib/gdbm171.zoo/README.Atari

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Here is the latest GNU gdbm database library, version 1.7.1, compiled
with gcc 2.5.8 and the patchlevel 41 MiNTlibs.  This should allow you to
easily use gdbm databases under MiNT.

NOTE:  gdbm programs WILL NOT work under TOS, because the library
       needes file locking!  As far as I know, only MiNT provides
       the _FLK cookie, and file locking.  If you make a program
       that uses gdbm, PLEASE mention this in the documentation!

I built these using my cross-compiler... they build find on my ST, but it's
quite a bit slower.  This is a really great library... you can drop
items with different length keys, and different length data into the
same database, no problems.  It seems fairly fast, too.  I plan to use
it to store information for an object-oriented role-playing game, so
maybe there'll be a better C++ example to show off gdbm at some point.

Here are the files you should have:

COPYING      - Information about copying GNU software.
ChangeLog    - Original GNU changelog for the gdbm library.
NEWS         - News about gdbm.
README       - Original GNU README.
README.Atari - This file.
bin/         - The test programs and conv2gdbm; Atari executables.
gdbm.texinfo - TeXinfo documentation for gdbm.
include/     - header files for using gdbm.
info/        - A GNU info page for gdbm (based on gdbm.texinfo).
lib/         - 32-bit, 16-bit, shared and non-shared binary versions of gdbm.
man/         - The man page for gdbm.
samp1.cc     - A C++ programming example of using gdbm (not a very good
               example, IMHO!).

-Chris-
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