Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:13:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gdbm 1.8.3 uploaded
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:

> > actually, gdb is the debugger and "GNU dbm is a set of database routines
> > that use extensible hashing. It works similar to the standard UNIX dbm
> > routines".
> 
> Ah, then about all the announcement needed is something like
> "gdbm, the GNU data base manager" tucked in there.

The usual convention for announcements is to tell at the beginning of the 
message (not in the subject) what is the ported package good for.  Adding 
that to the subject would make it too long, IMHO.

I guess Juan Manuel simply forgot about this convention.

And let me take this opportunity to thank Juan Manuel for his numerous 
contributions to porting packages to DJGPP.