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Compatibility with historic interfaces



IThe Berkeley DB version 2 library provides backward compatible interfaces³for the historic UNIX dbm, ndbm and hsearch interfaces.AIt also provides a backward compatible interface for the historicBerkeley DB 1.85 release.

LBerkeley DB version 2 does not provide database compatibility for any of theHabove interfaces, and existing databases must be converted manually.QTo convert existing databases from the Berkeley DB 1.85 format to the Berkeley DB…version 2 format, review the db_dump185 and db_loadhinformation. No utilities are provided to convert UNIX dbm,vndbm or hsearch databases.

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