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Copyright © 1993±1995 Mike Henry. All rights reserved. Introduction gdbmAdaptor is an NEXTSTEP DBKit-compliant Adaptor and a "Flat-file" Database all in one. You create the database model with DBModeler, hook the model up to your application with InterfaceBuilder and you're all set. As the name implies, gdbmAdaptor uses GNU DBM (or alternatively standard UNIX NDBM) to implement the lower levels of the database. Note that gdbmAdaptor already comes with GDBM compiled into it; you don't need to know anything about GDBM in order to use gdbmAdaptor. The documentation provided here only includes information regarding that which is particular to gdbmAdaptor, and the things which make it different from other DBKit Adaptors. Make sure you study the NEXTSTEP DBKit Concept Manuals (most notably the Adaptors and Models chapters) before you start doing any serious work.
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