"Export dbm" program

On Fri, 9 Dec 1994 15:11:37 -0500  "Dale S. Johnson" wrote:
> Has anyone looked at a program that would make an external representation
> of a dbm file, so that that file could be ftp'd, archived, etc. without
> passing on gigs of zeros?

For now, you might want to look into dump. Something like
'dump 0f - /whatever/special/directory | gzip > /dumpfile'
will work.

This is SUN-specific but it might be useful for now.

Geert Jan




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