GNU dbm

A Database Manager

by Philip A. Nelson, Jason Downs and Sergey Poznyakoff

Manual by Pierre Gaumond, Philip A. Nelson, Jason Downs

and Sergey Poznyakoff

Edition 1.10

for GNU dbm, Version 1.10

This is Edition 1.10 of the GNU dbm Manual, for gdbm Version 1.10.
Last updated 13 November 2011

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The GNU database manager.

GNU dbm is a library of functions implementing a hashed database on a disk file. This manual documents GNU dbm Version 1.10 (gdbm). The software was originally written by Philip A. Nelson. This document was originally written by Pierre Gaumond from texts written by Phil.

Introduction:
1 Copying Conditions.		Your rights.
2 Introduction to GNU `dbm`.		Introduction to GNU dbm.
3 List of functions.
Functions:
4 Opening the database.
5 Closing the database.
6 Inserting and replacing records in the database.
7 Searching for records in the database.		Searching records in the database.
8 Removing records from the database.
9 Sequential access to records.
10 Database reorganization.
11 Database Synchronization		Insure all writes to disk have competed.
12 Export and Import		Export and import to Flat file format.
13 Error strings.		Convert internal error codes into English.
14 Setting options		Setting internal options.
15 File Locking.		File locking.
Programs
16 Test and modify a GDBM database.
17 Export a database into a portable format.
Other topics:
19 Error codes		Error codes returned by `gdbm` calls.
18 Useful global variables.		Two useful variables.
20 Compatibility with standard `dbm` and `ndbm`.		Compatibility with UNIX dbm and ndbm.
21 Problems and bugs.
22 Additional resources
Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License		Document license.
Index

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