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From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 'db' Database Implementation in BSD
Date: 19 Oct 1995 14:44:18 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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:

There is, indeed, a newer version of the db library, on the below site.
It contains ports for more than 20 different OS's.

: #       @(#)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. ;-)

/Alby