Re: [CODE] Use UNIX database gdbm/ndbm/dbm for player&

From: JARED MCDONALD (jmcdonald@sol.otago.ac.nz)
Date: 09/21/96


> I just stumbled onto the dbm thingy which comes with
> all UNIXes:

> 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.

thats fine but what about all the people on wintel machines, on os2 
on anything else they are trying to run it on.  Doing something like 
that would really tie us to a platform.

Jared McDonald


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