Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for debian), that
would allow me to examine the contents of berkely database files? (I think that
they are version 3)

Thanks


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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:04:53PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for debian), that
> would allow me to examine the contents of berkely database files? (I think that
> they are version 3)
>
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Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
> debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
> database files? (I think that they are version 3)

Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which
sounds to me like you're researching ancient history. However, bf
also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB. bogoutil is:

ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

so perhaps you can learn its secrets from the code. I see there's
also libberkeleydb-perl if you're perl friendly.

This is on Sarge.


[0] Ah, sorry, digging a bit deeper (/usr/share/doc/bogofilter/README.db)
mentions:

Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.1.17: (July 31, 2000)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (January 24, 2001)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.3.11: (July 12, 2001)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (November 18, 2001)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)
Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (December 22, 2004)

so perhaps not quite as ancient as I thought.


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On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:39:14 GMT
"s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:

> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> > Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
> > debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
> > database files? (I think that they are version 3)
>
> Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
> but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which
> sounds to me like you're researching ancient history. However, bf
> also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB. bogoutil is:
>

It is very ancient history (data from some old vetrinary clinic program which
is no longer supported but still in use by a friend but causing some problems
and I'm trying to read the files to be less blind about this.

Turns out that it's a borland paradox database though, just as old I'm afraid.

Managed to dump parts of it and now I need to figure out why window messes up
and whether it will run on wine so that she can bypass windows alltogether.

> ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
> GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>
> so perhaps you can learn its secrets from the code. I see there's
> also libberkeleydb-perl if you're perl friendly.
>
> This is on Sarge.
>
>
> [0] Ah, sorry, digging a bit deeper (/usr/share/doc/bogofilter/README.db)
> mentions:
>
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.1.17: (July 31, 2000)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (January 24, 2001)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.3.11: (July 12, 2001)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (November 18, 2001)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)
> Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (December 22, 2004)
>
> so perhaps not quite as ancient as I thought.
>
>


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On 04/01/07 19:02, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:39:14 GMT
> "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>>> Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
>>> debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
>>> database files? (I think that they are version 3)
>> Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
>> but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which
>> sounds to me like you're researching ancient history. However, bf
>> also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB. bogoutil is:
>>
>
> It is very ancient history (data from some old vetrinary clinic program which
> is no longer supported but still in use by a friend but causing some problems
> and I'm trying to read the files to be less blind about this.
>
> Turns out that it's a borland paradox database though, just as old I'm afraid.
>
> Managed to dump parts of it and now I need to figure out why window messes up
> and whether it will run on wine so that she can bypass windows alltogether.

This is a link from the Paradox Wikipedia page to a conversion tool
written in C:
http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/pxtools/

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