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To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: docs/633 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:05:51 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:06:22 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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"ndbm" is a backwards-compatible naming convention.  "dbm" is the actual
library these days which has long since taken on all the special features
of "ndbm"

					Jordan

> 
> On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Synopsis: no manpage for ndbm
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> > State-Changed-By: jkh
> > State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 3 01:01:59 PST 1996
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > This man page isn't even supposed to exist, and it's the actual
> > references to it which are in error.
> 
>   Why?  There is an ndbm.h include, and there are ndbm procs in libc.  
> Shouldn't that be documented?
> 
> Tom