[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix (AIX)

[David Cantrell]

> On Friday 31 January 2003 10:07, Kevin wrote:
> > AIX Binary config database?  Is that something like the Win32
> > registry (only much more stable hopefully)?  Will it function
> > acceptably without this database or is it mandatory?  I know
> > Solaris has a "registry", and even GNOME has one these days,
> > but i was unaware that AIX functioned in this manner.

IIRC Gnome's registry is a "compiled" version of the text files, in a binary
format for faster access.  It is automagically rebuilt when the text files
it's based on change.

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