1GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extendible hashing and 2works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines. 3 4This is release 1.8.3 of GNU dbm. 5 6To compile gdbm: 7 8 a) configure <config parameters like -prefix ... see INSTALL> 9 b) make 10 11To compile the optional test and conversion programs: 12 13 a) make progs 14 15To install the basic package: 16 17 a) make install 18 19To install the optional dbm and ndbm API compatibility library and headers: 20 21 a) make install-compat 22 23Please report bugs to 24 bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org 25 26------------------------------------------ 27 28The files are: 29 30INSTALL - Installation tips and information. 31NEWS - New and changed things. 32COPYING - Copying information. 33README - This file. 34 35bucket.c, extern.h, falloc.c, findkey.c, gdbm.proto, gdbmclose.c, 36gdbmconst.h gdbmdefs.h, gdbmdelete.c, gdbmerrno.h, gdbmfdesc.c, gdbmfetch.c, 37gdbmsync.c, gdbmopen.c, gdbmreorg.c, gdbmseq.c, gdbmstore.c, global.c, gdbm.h, 38hash.c systems.h, update.c, version.c - Source for GNU dbm library. 39 40dbm.h dbminit.c, delete.c, fetch.c, seq.c, store.c - Source for the 41DBM interface. 42 43dbmclose.c, dbmdelete.c, dbmdirfno.c, dbmfetch.c, dbmopen.c, dbmpagfno.c 44dbmseq.c, dbmstore.c, ndbm.h - Source for the NDBM interface. 45 46Makefile - Makefile, will make gdbm.a (BSD and SYSV) 47testgdbm.c - A simple test program. 48testdbm.c - A simple test program. 49testndbm.c - A simple test program. 50conv2gdbm.c - A dbm database conversion program. 51 52gdbm.3, gdbm.texinfo - Documentation for gdbm. 53 54The author of GNU dbm may be reached via e-mail to <phil@cs.wwu.edu>, 55and the current maintainer may be reached at <downsj@downsj.com>. 56E-mail may be sent to either, or both, of these people. 57