- ensure hostname from gethostname() is nul-terminated in all cases
- minor KNF
- use MAXHOSTNAMELEN over various other values/defines
- be safe will buffers that hold hostnames
if the initial open fails with EFTYPE. if a different database
format is found to be more efficient, just add the code to open it
prior to that of the other formats; this maintains backward
compatibility with older databases whilst providing new functionality...
- add rcsid's