Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ficc!karl
From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for dbm
Summary: another note on use
Message-ID: <2707@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Jan 89 15:04:26 GMT
References: <306@twwells.uucp> <315@twwells.uucp> <376@frksyv.UUCP>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <315@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>...dbz.c. This is not a complete dbm
>replacement, but it is sufficient for the news software.

A note for people running System V/386, enabling DBM routines caused the post
optimizer to generate some bad code.  The symptom was that the ID information
that's written into the history file is trashed, consequently duplicate
articles aren't rejected, etc.  My solution was to compile without -O.
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