jockc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Jock Cooper) (06/02/89)
I have picked up several packages from the comp/sources/unix archives that seem to require a library called libdbm.. Our Xenix machine (PS/2 Mod 80) has this library, but our Unix machine (NCR Tower 650) does not. Where can I get a copy of the source code? Or can I get it at all? I do all my work (and play) on the Tower. Jock Cooper HCA Information Services inhp4!killer!jockc jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/02/89)
In article <8252@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jock Cooper) writes: >I have picked up several packages from the comp/sources/unix archives that seem >to require a library called libdbm... Where can I >get a copy of the source code? Or can I get it at all? ... The original dbm was part of Version 7 Unix. Some descendants of V7 picked it up; some did not. It is AT&T licensed software and theoretically cannot be distributed without AT&T approval. However... 1. I am told that there is a copy of it in some (all?) recent tapes of the X window system. 2. There is a near-public-domain reimplementation currently in beta test, which should be available soon. (No, I'm not the author.) -- You *can* understand sendmail, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology but it's not worth it. -Collyer| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) (06/03/89)
In article <8252@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jock Cooper) writes: | I have picked up several packages from the comp/sources/unix archives that seem | to require a library called libdbm.. dbm is not public domain. There are other packages but several of them seem to include AT&T code, too, even though they say they don't. The is a true public domain version coming called sdbm, which is in beta now. Look for it in a few months. It will solve the problem, and may be a tad faster, too. bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (06/03/89)
In article <8252@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> jockc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jock Cooper) writes: >... require a library called libdbm.. > ... Where can I >get a copy of the source code? Or can I get it at all? I do all my work >(and play) on the Tower. >Jock Cooper That is the hashed database library (reportedly dropped in SVr?) sources of which cannot be distributed, AT&T licensed stuff, trade secret, propriatery and all that. A nicer derivation of that library (ndbm) is found under BSD (+derived) systems. I have a complete PD replacement for that library, based on a 1978 "Dynamic Hashing" algorithm by Per-Ake Larson. It is currently undergoing beta testing. Expect a posting "real soon", that will include the ndbm clone (sdbm) , and a "dbm" wrapper around it, along with some handy utilities. oz -- SomeOS4.n: Brooks was right all Usenet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca along, but it shouldn't take so ......!uunet!utai!yunexus!oz large a pie in a face to figure Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] it out.. anon. Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976
jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) (06/06/89)
In article <1989Jun2.160818.4749@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > You *can* understand sendmail, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology > but it's not worth it. -Collyer| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu This sinks it. The space program must really be dead!