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1#	$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 1996/05/03 21:17:07 cgd Exp $
2#	@(#)README	8.27 (Berkeley) 9/1/94
3
4This is version 1.85 of the Berkeley DB code.
5
6For information on compiling and installing this software, see the file
7PORT/README.
8
9Newer versions of this software will periodically be made available by
10anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu.  An archive in compressed format
11is in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z, or in gzip format in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.gz.  If
12you'd like to receive announcements of future releases of this software,
13send email to the contact address below.
14
15Email questions may be addressed to Keith Bostic at bostic@cs.berkeley.edu.
16
17============================================
18Distribution contents:
19
20Makefile.inc	Ignore this, it's the 4.4BSD subsystem Makefile.
21PORT		The per OS/architecture directories to use to build
22		libdb.a, if you're not running 4.4BSD.  See the file
23		PORT/README for more information.
24README		This file.
25btree		The B+tree routines.
26changelog	List of changes, per version.
27db		The dbopen(3) interface routine.
28docs		Various USENIX papers, and the formatted manual pages.
29hash		The extended linear hashing routines.
30man		The unformatted manual pages.
31mpool		The memory pool routines.
32recno		The fixed/variable length record routines.
33test		Test package.
34
35============================================
36Debugging:
37
38If you're running a memory checker (e.g. Purify) on DB, make sure that
39you recompile it with "-DPURIFY" in the CFLAGS, first.  By default,
40allocated pages are not initialized by the DB code, and they will show
41up as reads of uninitialized memory in the buffer write routines.
42