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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!gateway.platinum.com!news3.noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Database management in FreeBSD Date: 6 Sep 1995 18:34:49 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <42kpk9$h4t@reason.cdrom.com> References: <42fgqd$4d9@sparky.servicom.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:42fgqd$4d9@sparky.servicom.es Antonio Navarro Navarro <bemar@servicom.es> wrote: >I am building an application in C under FreeBSD 2.0.5, Do you know about how to manage a big >database (about 2.000 records) ? I am looking for a library or tools for develope the program and For such a small database, you might want to consider the dbm(3) family of routines. They're a standard part of libc. If more powerful lookups are required, take a look at /usr/ports/databases/msql (or any of its other brothers in ports/databases). Finally, if you need something commercial quality (with forms management and the whole 9 yards) then maybe you want to look at http://www.conetic.com. -- Jordan