Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews and (n)dbm Message-ID: <1990Feb14.195402.25234@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Feb13.172342.25314@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 19:54:02 GMT In article <1990Feb13.172342.25314@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill writes: >In the past, I've answered build's questions as if it was using dbm, >and it seemed to work alright. This time, patched to current, I tried >making it use ndbm, but it doesn't seem to work... Doesn't compile, or doesn't run? With a straight ndbm, it shouldn't even compile, because the function names are different. If it compiles, it ought to work -- under 4.3, dbm is supposed to be implemented using ndbm, so a dbm-like interface found in ndbm presumably is identical to dbm. -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu