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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / What are DBM and EXB files?

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Long
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 19:25
Hello,

I've noticed that the 6.7 update "outputs DBM and EXB files". What are those for?

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Dewi Morgan
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Posted: 13th Mar 2008 13:12
[completely uninformed guess]
I suspect these are just intermediary files generated when compiling. But if they are actually using the extensions in their commonly accepted meaning, then:

DBM files are files containing key/value pairs, used by perl for loading/saving arrays & data structures. If that's what DBP is calling a DBM, then that would be rather cool. But in this case it's more likely to just stand for something like "Dark Basic Media" or something.

EXB are "flash image" files: drive images that can be written to flash drives I think. Not sure how this would be relevant, which is why I reckon it's just an intermediary step to making the .EXE.
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