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From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Include files munged (solution)
Keywords: dbm.h smail3.1.20
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Date: 15 Mar 91 17:12:16 GMT
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	***(NeXT: Read carefuly and fix this in 2.1)***

In the process of getting smail3.1.20 running on my 2.0 cube I ran into
a problem with the include file /usr/include/dbm.h as described below.
Fortunately after fixing the dbm file and making a few small changes I
succeded and now am rid of NeXT's broken version of sendmail.  Smail
realy works well.

The line:
		datum	fetch(char *file);
must be changed to read:
		datum	fetch(datum key);
for the declaration to match the function in libdbm.a.  NeXT also botched
the declarations for the store and delete functions in the same file.  As
distributed they read:
	void	store (datum key, datum content);
	void	delete (datum key);
when in reality they return a status and should be:
	int	store (datum key, datum content);
	int	delete (datum key);
I wrote a baby test program to verify that next had not screwed up
the library and then massaged the include file to match.  Fortunately
the library code is correct.
-- 
Michael Galassi				| nerd@percy.rain.com
MS-DOS:  The ultimate PC virus.		| ...!tektronix!percy!nerd