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Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
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From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com>
>>I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system;
> >>gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.
> > Why not? I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this limitation?
> Sure -- figure out a way to implement hardlinks on FAT.
It's called cross linked files... and checkdisk will 'fix' it :[.
Rob
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