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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, tom@sdf.com
Subject: Re: docs/633
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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"

`db' (inside libc) is the actual library.  It provies the apparently-
undocumented dbm backwards compatibility interface which is the subject
of the PR.

Bruce