On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:39:14 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for > > debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely > > database files? (I think that they are version 3) > > Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0], > but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which > sounds to me like you're researching ancient history. However, bf > also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB. bogoutil is: > It is very ancient history (data from some old vetrinary clinic program which is no longer supported but still in use by a friend but causing some problems and I'm trying to read the files to be less blind about this. Turns out that it's a borland paradox database though, just as old I'm afraid. Managed to dump parts of it and now I need to figure out why window messes up and whether it will run on wine so that she can bypass windows alltogether. > ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > so perhaps you can learn its secrets from the code. I see there's > also libberkeleydb-perl if you're perl friendly. > > This is on Sarge. > > > [0] Ah, sorry, digging a bit deeper (/usr/share/doc/bogofilter/README.db) > mentions: > > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.1.17: (July 31, 2000) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (January 24, 2001) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.3.11: (July 12, 2001) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (November 18, 2001) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003) > Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (December 22, 2004) > > so perhaps not quite as ancient as I thought. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]