Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/633 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960612135253.27561E-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199606121018.UAA16266@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > >"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. Exactly. There is no manpage for dbm_open, dbm_close, dbm_fetch, etc., which are part of the ndbm interface, even though these functions are a part of libc. Tom
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