DBM(3X) on Ultrix 3.X

[Paul A Vixie]

>> Re all the stuff on undefined names in libdbm.a -- are you expecting
>> this to be libndbm.a?  We ran into the same problem, expecting ndbm
>> names instead of dbm.

Ultrix doesn't have libndbm.  4.3bsd keeps it in libc.a and turns libdbm.a
into stubs that call the ndbm stuff.  Ultrix is still based on 4.2bsd in
this area -- sort of like syslog :-(.  The GNU dbm routines seem to work
pretty well, though, and they have an NDBM interface (among others).
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Paul Vixie
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