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[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus.com> writes:

    Aaron> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:31:37PM +0100, Paul J Collins wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus.com> writes:
    >> 
    Aaron> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:23:19PM +0100, Paul J Collins wrote:
    >> >> Images belong in the filesystem, not inside some funky database file.
    >> >> If there are ten users on a system, and they all use the same backdrop
    >> >> from /usr/share/pixmaps, is it not stupid for EFM to keep another ten
    >> >> copies of it?
    >> 
    Aaron> I don't want my images scattered all over the file system.
    >> 
    >> I do.  It's a filesystem, and I keep files in it.  Keeping them in
    >> binary databases is bullshit.

    Aaron> Isn't a filesystem just a binary database?

Can cp, mv, cat, grep, perl, sed, awk, cut, join, more, less, vi and
emacs operate on gdbm files' contents as they do on files in a
filesystem?

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