Hello all!
I just stumbled onto the dbm thingy which comes with
all UNIXes:
NDBM(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual NDBM(3)
NAME
dbm_open, dbm_close, dbm_fetch, dbm_store, dbm_delete,
dbm_firstkey, dbm_nextkey, dbm_error, dbm_clearerr - data
base subroutines
DESCRIPTION
These functions maintain key/content pairs in a data base.
The functions will handle very large (a billion blocks)
databases and will access a keyed item in one or two file
system accesses. This package replaces the earlier dbm(3x)
library, which managed only a single database.
Wouldn't using those save us from many problems with playerfile,
alias, objfile & saved_struct modification ?
The public domain gdbm package can be downloaded from
aeneas.mit.edu. Just in case its not installed ...
Cat.
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