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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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