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| author | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-02-26 04:24:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-02-26 04:24:44 +0000 |
| commit | 242ee733b985ac1c0489345005dd70bf3d845800 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fe4ca20afa5b0f39622c13a43ac8f702071ba62 /databases/gdbm/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 8b977e94cc94f1593038d9cc083b7bd95dd31840 (diff) | |
| download | ports-242ee733b985ac1c0489345005dd70bf3d845800.tar.gz ports-242ee733b985ac1c0489345005dd70bf3d845800.zip | |
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diff --git a/databases/gdbm/pkg-descr b/databases/gdbm/pkg-descr index 0f9a2aae3a37..bbb93ea101df 100644 --- a/databases/gdbm/pkg-descr +++ b/databases/gdbm/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ -GNU `dbm' is a library of functions implementing a hashed database -on a disk file. The software was written by Philip A. Nelson. +The GNU `dbm' is a library of database functions that use extendible +hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX `dbm' functions. +These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and +manipulate a hashed database. -Port to FreeBSD 2.1 by -Brent J. Nordquist <bjn@visi.com> -Mon Apr 8 06:27:31 1996 +This library exists in the FreeBSD base collection, but the GNU +version has added functionality that is sometimes useful. + +WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html |