How to determine format of .db files

Amos Gouaux +archive.info-cyrus at utdallas.edu
Tue Sep 17 00:31:24 EDT 2002


>>>>> On 16 Sep 2002 23:42:51 +0100,
>>>>> Simon Loader <simon at surf.org.uk> (sl) writes:

>> Berkeley DB should be anything else.

sl> wont the file command produce different answers ? Well tell you one
sl> is data and the other is a database.

Unless your file command is different, mine just says a Berkeley DB
file is data.  When I wasn't certain myself, I just looked at them
with 'less'.  ;-)  That's how I noticed the skiplist DB actually
have an identifiable string.

-- 
Amos





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