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authorOliver Braun <obraun@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-05 20:45:13 +0000
committerOliver Braun <obraun@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-05 20:45:13 +0000
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parentUpgrade to 0.42. (diff)
Upgrade to 1.12.
PR: ports/44947 Submitted by: maintainer
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@@ -11,4 +11,11 @@ want a real database). JDB is very good at doing things like:
histograms, correlations)
* reformatting data for graphing programs
+Rather than hand-code scripts to do each special case, JDB provides
+higher-level functions.
+
+JDB is built on flat-ASCII databases. By storing data in simple text
+files and processing it with pipelines it is easy to experiment (in
+the shell) and look at the output.
+
WWW: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/JDB/index.html