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Good suggestions but we won't do it that way: a) we don't want any of SUN's stuff since we'd have to port that library to Windows. All it takes is a few ntohl etc. b) the dbm from sleepycat is indeed beautiful, but it is not free for commercial use, hence we won't use it. - Peter - On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Brian Bartholomew wrote: > > Task 2: define a serialization of this structure to a disk record. > > Recommendation: use the XDR routines from Sun RPC to marshall the > in-core structures to and from a packed format, rather than coding the > transform by hand. > > > GNU dbm (gdbm) format. > > Recommendation: dump gdbm in favor of the follow-on work to Berkeley > dbm, available from http://www.sleepycat.com. This code has lots of > good properties, including speed, transactions, multi-user locking, > on-line hot backups, and a port to Windows. *I have never encountered > a bug in db2 while using it correctly*. Both sendmail and Netscape > are using this package. The license says you can use it commercially > if you distribute the source for your application. I expect other > licenses are possible if you ask. > > > Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) www.lpf.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Bartholomew - bb_at_wv.com - www.wv.com - Working Version, Cambridge, MA >Received on 1998-02-16 11:33:25