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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 'db' Database Implementation in BSD
Date: 9 Oct 1995 09:18:08 +0100
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Mike Clark <cus1mc@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to get a specification and a list of functions
> for the 'db' Database library which I think comes with
> FreeBSD
>
> Is the source code for the 'db' included and will it compile
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
of course!
> with different compilers (perhaps on non-BSD machine)
The db ("new db") code originates from Berkeley. I'm not sure if the
version in the FreeBSD source tree is the complete Berkeley
distribution, anyway, here's the beginning of the file
/usr/src/lib/libc/db/VERSION:
# @(#)VERSION 8.9 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
This is version 1.74 of the Berkeley DB code.
If your version of the DB code doesn't have a copy
of this version file, it's really old, please update it!
New versions of this software are periodically made
available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu,
in the file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z, or from ftp.uu.net.
If you'd like to get announcements of future releases
of this software, send email to the contact address
below.
Email questions may be addressed to Keith Bostic at
bostic@cs.berkeley.edu.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)