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Re: Cnews and (n)dbm

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 19:54
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In article <1990Feb13.172342.25314@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill <dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil> 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.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and (n)dbm
Message-ID: <1990Feb14.195402.25234@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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