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<sect2 role="package">
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<title/>
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- <para>The GDBM package contains the GNU Database Manager. This is a disk
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- file format database which stores key/data-pairs in single files. The
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- actual data of any record being stored is indexed by a unique key, which can
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- be retrieved in less time than if it was stored in a text file.</para>
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+ <para>The GDBM package contains the GNU Database Manager. It is a library
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+ of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the
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+ standard UNIX dbm. The library provides primitives for storing key/data
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+ pairs, searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key
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+ along with its data. </para>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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