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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sat Jul 30 10:43:02 2022 +0100 (2022-07-30) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/gdbm/description.txt Sat Jul 30 10:43:02 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ 1.4 +GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that 1.5 +use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm. 1.6 +These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and 1.7 +manipulate a hashed database. 1.8 + 1.9 +The basic use of GDBM is to store key and data pairs in a data file. 1.10 +Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data item. 1.11 + 1.12 +The library provides primitives for storing key and data pairs, 1.13 +searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key along 1.14 +with its data. 1.15 +It also support sequential iteration over all key and data pairs in 1.16 +a database. 1.17 + 1.18 +For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the package 1.19 +also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces