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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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Subject: Re: database advice
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> Any advice?  I have heard (I think) of other people doing DBMS stuff on
> FreeBSD.  Any nuggets of wisdom?  What are you using? Should I just roll
> my own Record Shoving Library? 

If you use the ndbm library, there is a small nuance of FreeBSD which 
most other systems have changed (?) or never had a problem with.  
Basically FreeBSD has <db.h> rather than <dbm.h>.  You should be using 
ndbm anyway, but this causes problems if you happen to have a "db.h" file.

(For reference: Solaris, Ultrix, Digital Unix, IRIX and Linux do NOT have 
this problem).

If you want some reference code for using ndbm, I work on an object 
oriented database driver for networking applications which uses it for 
the database management aspect, you can get the source at:

    ftp://cold.org/pub/cold/drivers/Genesis.tar.gz

-Brandon Gillespie-