Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DBM(3X) on Ultrix 3.X Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 14:29:15 GMT References: <61334@bu.edu.bu.edu> <61394@bu.edu.bu.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: scs@iti.org's message of 27 Jul 90 12:37:36 GMT >> Re all the stuff on undefined names in libdbm.a -- are you expecting >> this to be libndbm.a? We ran into the same problem, expecting ndbm >> names instead of dbm. Ultrix doesn't have libndbm. 4.3bsd keeps it in libc.a and turns libdbm.a into stubs that call the ndbm stuff. Ultrix is still based on 4.2bsd in this area -- sort of like syslog :-(. The GNU dbm routines seem to work pretty well, though, and they have an NDBM interface (among others). -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie