Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting an un-encrypted fortunes.dat
Message-ID: <843@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 08:48:20 GMT
References: <2673@m2-net.UUCP> <543@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>On a BSD machine, it's not encrypted, but it *is* stored in dbm format.

Not "dbm", a different binary format.  (The index is just a huge array
of seek pointers into the file.)