I remember being stymied by the BIND zone files (which are plain text) being called .db files (they may actually be called anything -- some people used the .db

I remember being stymied by the BIND zone files (which are plain text) being called .db files (they may actually be called anything -- some people used the .db extension). I had just learned about sendmail, and I knew it kept alias tables in Berkeley DB files (which are binary), which in sendmail parlance were also called .db files. As Alan Kay is fond of quoting Bob Barton... "Systems programmers are high priests of a low art."