lt.  `null' is returned on failure.</DL>
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open</H3>
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public boolean <B>open</B>(java.lang.String&nbsp;name)</PRE>
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<DD>Open a database.
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>name</CODE> - the name of the database.  If it is "*", the database will be an on-memory hash
 database.  If it is "+", the database will be an on-memory tree database.  If its suffix is
 ".tch", the database will be a hash database. 