Pretty much the last time I tried to use it for anything serious was in Solaris 7, but 
yes, I am thinking of what was delivered with
BSD 4.1 and above.  So you are saying the -ldb will give me multi-user, multi-key, 
transactional access to record based data under
Linux/390?

libdb last time I looked was just a disk based associative array handler...

-Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: VSAM or Lightweight Database?


> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 04:32, Paul Raulerson wrote:
> > THe Berkeley db stuff is no where near robust enough to take the place of a 
>mainframe VSAM implementation. We would like to use
the
> > Informix C-ISAM, but that is not available for Linux/390.
> > (yet.)
>
> I wonder which versions you've dealt with. Modern libdb has full
> transactions. Its far from the ancient BSD 4.3 world
>

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