Refer Data Format

• A refer database is a file of refer records
• Records are separated by one or more blank lines

• nothing more than allowing multi-character field names
• "invented" by yours truly sometime in the late 1980's
• (clearly many others invented the same thing…)

%name    access
%path    /etc/mail/access
%filter  grep -v '^#' | sort -fu +0 -1
%update  if expr "`uname -sr`" : "SunOS 5" > /dev/null;
         then makemap dbm  /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access;
         else makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access;
         fi
%comment sendmail access list database for spam stomping

• jinn
• classic library web authoring system
• new Web Express web authoring system
• a dozen nand databases
• various staffweb web pages
• configuration files for various applications