Most of the time when I'm using DB_File (or it's grown up sibling BerkeleyDB) my data isn't even printable and I guess that's normal for others as well. One of the major selling points of these SleepyCat based databases is that you can stick arbitrary binary data. And that your dataset can be as large as four terabytes. I'd guess that most people who are using DB_File just don't have GUI generic editing clients on their horizons.

Or maybe that's just me. I don't think it'd be too hard to do a basic Tk client anyway.

Fun Fun Fun in the Fluffy Chair

In reply to Re: DB_File utility by diotalevi
in thread DB_File utility by NWB

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