Version 1.85 of the Berkeley DB code
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For information on compiling and installing this software, see the file PORT/README.

Newer versions of this software will periodically be made available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. An archive in compressed format is in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z, or in gzip format in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.gz. If you'd like to receive announcements of future releases of this software, send email to the contact address below.

Distribution contents
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Makefile.inc - Ignore this, it's the 4.4BSD subsystem Makefile.

PORT - The per OS/architecture directories to use to build libdb.a, if you're not running 4.4BSD. See the file

PORT/README for more information.

README - Original README file.

btree - The B+tree routines.

changelog - List of changes, per version.

db - The dbopen(3) interface routine.

docs - Various USENIX papers, and the formatted manual pages.

hash - The extended linear hashing routines.

man - The unformatted manual pages.

mpool - The memory pool routines.

recno - The fixed/variable length record routines.

test - Test package.

Debugging
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If you're running a memory checker (e.g. Purify) on DB, make sure that you recompile it with "-DPURIFY" in the CFLAGS, first. By default, allocated pages are not initialized by the DB code, and they will show up as reads of uninitialized memory in the buffer write routines.

Version
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$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 1996/05/03 21:17:07 cgd Exp $

@(#)README	8.27 (Berkeley) 9/1/94