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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How can I get dbm on my 386/ix
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.163953.25675@comm.wang.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 16:39:53 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.230103.9099@bram.UUCP>
Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms.
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joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino) writes:
>I don't seem to have dbm on my system.  Several software packages like smail
>need it for path lookup.  Does anyone have a PD version that will work on a
>386/ix?  I would appraciate any help I can get.

You can pull dbz out of C-news.  It's a pretty limited version of dbm,
but it's faster and smaller, and might be enough for your needs. 
Alternatively, there is a GNU version of dbm (or will be...?) but, of
course, FSF stuff isn't PD.

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