Re: 102 megabyte dbm file?

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I guess over time the file would tend to fill in as the keyspace is used
> up..

>From the man page for ndbm on Solaris 2:

dbm_delete() does not physically reclaim file space, though it does
make it available for reuse.

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