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From: strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu (Dan Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: NDBM copyrighted?
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Date: 18 Oct 1995 00:15:22 GMT
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Are the sources to the original NDBM copyrighted?

There appear to be numerous clones that don't use the same format.

The net-2 distributions Seem to only have db.

The net-1 distributions Seem to have neither db nor ndbm.

Is it's not encumbered, where can the sources be found?

What I'd really like, is something that can be tweaked to read/write
(especially write) ndbm files from multiple platforms, by doing the
appropriate byte-flipping.