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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: libdbm.a
Keywords: dbm, ndbm
Message-ID: <2093@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 23:01:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.2093
References: <870@bimacs.BITNET> <8252@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <8252@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jock Cooper) writes:
>... require a library called libdbm.. 
> ... Where can I
>get a copy of the source code?  Or can I get it at all? I do all my work 
>(and play) on the Tower.

>Jock Cooper

That is the hashed database library (reportedly dropped in SVr?) sources
of which cannot be distributed, AT&T licensed stuff, trade secret,
propriatery and all that.  A nicer derivation of that library (ndbm) is
found under BSD (+derived) systems.

I have a complete PD replacement for that library, based on a 1978 "Dynamic
Hashing" algorithm by Per-Ake Larson. It is currently undergoing beta
testing. Expect a posting "real soon", that will include the ndbm 
clone (sdbm) , and a "dbm" wrapper around it, along with some handy
utilities.

oz
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