Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Ndbm (was: Problem with Spacewar under Sys V, dbm.h)
Keywords: ndbm
Message-ID: <512@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 21:24:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.512
References: <937@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group
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In article <937@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>Okay, fact time.
>...
>Rumor has it that a combination of Chris Torek and James Gosling wrote and
>modified a replacement DBM package that Gosling used for the documentation
>subsystem that is in the Emacs he wrote while at CMU.
>...

I have looked at that just now, it is called "ndbm". I cannot tell
for sure, but it looks somewhat different than the original dbm.
Now, mind you, there are some similarities, so perhaps Dr. Gosling
and/or Chris may enlighten us. [I badly need a PD dbm such as that
one... I would love to see it being posted.]

oz
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