A set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields. They're basically flat files. Field names and types are specified with %, data is in field name: value format. It's sort of like key/value, but more structured. Fields can be mandatory or forbidden. Primary keys, unique fields, automatically incrementing counters and timestamps. Template support for running reports. SQL-like joins and foreign keys. Individual fields can be encrypted. Conversion to and from several formats.