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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: xDBM sources
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Date: 18 Jan 90 00:03:22 GMT
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In article <1068@kosman.UUCP>, kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
|>I see references to dbm, ndbm and mdbm from time to time.  
|>I can guess what they are.  I don't know what the differences are among
|>them.

In general dbm belongs to the BSD world with ndbm introduced in
4.3BSD. ndbm differs from dbm in that multiple database files can be
simultaneously open. The other ?dbm packages provide compatible
functions for those without ndbm. I believe the GNU version is sdbm.
Another version was just posted to one of the source groups
(alt.sources).

					Ron

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