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From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: GDBM
9 Oct 1997 02:41:22 -0700 :
Message-ID: <19971008113217.1916.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


>From: dwayne DOT nielsen AT langeninc DOT com
>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 97 11:44:37 -0500
>To: <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: GDBM
>
>
>Has there been any success using gdbm on both NT and SunOS using the
>same data file.  I compiled gdbm on NT and on Sun.  When I create a
>database on Sun and then use it on NT I get the following error:
>
>gdbm fatal: read error.
>
>Any help/suggestions.
>

gdbm needs the file system mounted in binary mode.  To do this you use 
"mount -b".  For more help on text=binary vs. text!=binary see the mail 
archives for September at http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32.

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PS: I had sent this to Dwayne but his mailer thought that it was from a 
spammer.  

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