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From: kannan@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (R. Kannan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: libdbm.a
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Date: 3 Jun 89 21:19:10 GMT
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From article <590@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, by davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen):
>   dbm is not public domain. There are other packages but several of them
>   The is a true public domain version coming called sdbm, which is in
> beta now. Look for it in a few months. It will solve the problem, and
> 	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
> "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

Thank you very much for posting this.

Can you be more specific about the public domain version. where exactly or 
should we look for?

Also is there anything we could do about the incompatibilities of
ndbm and dbm.
DEC ultrix does not provide ndbm, while iris(SGI), sun, hp and others
all provide both.

Is there anything we should know.

Also we would like to know about similar package for VMS machines.

Thanks very much in advance.

BTW in connection to recent discussion about private e-mail to postings

what is novice to someone is new to someone else

We here at CERC, enjoy and learn in the process lot about c and computing
in general from comp.lang.c. So please continue this unchecked posting.

--kannan