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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:

> There was only one issue of concern:  FreeBSD 2.1 appears to ship with
> a /usr/include/ndbm.h.  However, a man -k on dbm and ndbm reveals
> nothing of interest, and there don't appear to be any dbm libraries.
> Does FreeBSD have dbm/ndbm support?

  FreeBSD has ndbm support via a compatibility interface to db.  db is 
actually bundled in libc

  I've been bugging some people to get a ndbm manpage since we do provide 
an almost complete ndbm interface.

Tom