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From: treese@athena.mit.edu (Win Treese)
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Subject: Re: IDA kit/DBM library
Keywords: IDA dbm ndbm
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Date: 26 Jan 89 06:46:47 GMT
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Problem: Wants to run IDA on Ultrix 3.0, but ndbm is missing.

Either solution is probably feasible, though I haven't yet looked at the
IDA code to make sure.

1) If the IDA code doesn't need to have multiple databases open at one
	time, it's straightforward to modify it to use the old dbm code.
	An example of this is now in the MIT Project Athena Kerberos
	distribution (available from athena-dist.mit.edu by anonymous ftp).
	It has ifdef's to use NDBM or DBM.

2) If you have an AT&T source license, find someone who will give you
	the ndbm code. It compiles and runs without modification on
	Ultrix 3.0.  Then link against it and enjoy.

Win Treese					Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com				Digital Equipment Corporation
Affiliation given for identification purposes only.