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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:55:55 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>
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Subject: Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb?
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In the last episode (Sep 29), Artem Koutchine said:
> 3) How can i avoid all this mess and make every single executable use the
> version i have installed (2.7.7).

If you really want to use a single version of DB across the board, use
DB 3.1.17 (it's in ports).  
 
> All this is causing me a lot of trouble, because DB_File cannot
> access db files created on Linux (Mandrake 7.1 and some version of
> Slackware, i think it is latest). I have multi-os development office,
> so, no os wars.

I'd say the answer is "don't do that" :)  Rebuild your DB file from the
source file on each machine you use it on, or switch to a client-server
databse like mysql.

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	Dan Nelson
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