Sorry James... I didn't mean to create misunderstanding. I think I meant gdbm. It's deprecated? Is there something faster for doing the kinds of modifications to the user db that are typically needed, in a fast way?
I see that you're against non-ascii for these databases, but I'm primarily concerned with speed for things like adding an existing user to a group having a fairly large population of members, among other groups in the database also having large populations. (By 'large', I don't mean anything larger than 100 members in a single group, nor smaller than 15, at least for the moment.) I'll probably create a perl program for doing mass updates of students into classes (in unix-ese: users into secondary groups)... but this would involve direct tinkering with the group db in perl... so release of it as a package might be out of the question :) -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
