Each Emacs database is stored in a set of three files whos name is the name of the database and whos extentions are .DIR, .PAG and .DAT.
The Emacs database commands use these database files.
You can maintain these database files using the Emacs support tools.
This command will create a database named 'db-name'. Use the options -c parameter to force an empty database to be created. Normally dbcreate will report an error if you attempt to create a database that already exists.
Add a new entry to database 'db-name'. The entry will have the key 'key' and the contents of the entry will be taken from standard input. Use redirection to as above to add the contents of a file.
Delete the entry named 'key' from the database 'db-name'.
Fetch the contents of entry 'key' from the database 'db-name'. The contents of the entry are output to standard output. Use redirection to save the contents to a file, as show above.
Print a list of all the keys in the database names 'db-name'.