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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-11-15 -Copyright (C) 1990-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2013-05-17 +Copyright (C) 1990-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. @@ -9,6 +9,25 @@ Version 1.10.90 (Git) * Improved dump format. * New utilities: gdbm_dump and gdbm_load. +Gdbm_dump create a plain-text dump of the GDBM database. This dump +can be used to create an exact copy of the database afterward. + +The gdbm_load performs the reverse: given the dump file, it creates a +GDBM database. Apart from the GDBM dump format, it also understands +the format generated by Berkeley DB db_dump utility. Thus, an easy +way to convert a Berkeley DB database to GDBM is: + + db_dump input.db | gdbm_load output.db + +* gdbmtool + +The gdbmtool utility allows you to examine, modify or create GDBM +databases. It provides an easy-to-use interactive shell and can +be used for scripting. One of the unique features of gdbmtool is that +it allows to define datum structures for key and content parts, similarly +to the C "struct" declarations, and to input and display such +structured data. + Version 1.10, 2011-11-13 @@ -199,7 +218,7 @@ Version 0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1990-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1990-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the |