On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:20:49 +1000 
 Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> wrote:

 > Without looking, is this something that the Berkeley DB routines and
 > libkvm could make good use of?

I beat you to it... already changed them :-)

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