Thanks Mike! It looks like sqlite is what I was looking for. I've got the sqlite3 and sqlite3-doc packages installed, and will be figuring things out. Greg On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:22:14PM +0100, Mike Ray wrote: > Greg, > > What you probably need is sqlite. > > sqlite is a totally free public domain database engine. It is used > in probably more devices than any other rdbms, because it is present > in practically every embedded device. Mobile phones, tablets and > media centres. > > If you install Python, you will get sqlite along with it. > > There are ways to connect to it from practically every language you > can think of. > > And it even has the ability to create purely 'in memory' databases > for temporary configuration stuff. > > I have used it on a Raspberry Pi to hold the station list in a > home-brew internet radio. > > Mike -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org