Why a flat file?

> Apart the usability by other people/programs (agrep covers a lot of 
> sins/scripts) the size of the dbm file
> is likely to be enourmous as well. Of course you can easily walk the
> whole dbm file and produce a readable version but the offset idea
> seems quick enough anyway so why bother ? 


	What happens to the flat file when you do a delete or
update? What about the updated offset? How does the flat file look like
just before the cleandb job?

		lpj

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