From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!pegasus!hansen Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Anyone used the dbm(3) routines ? Article-I.D.: pegasus.204 Posted: Fri Jan 28 09:44:16 1983 Received: Sat Jan 29 04:54:22 1983 References: kpno.134 fluke.684 If I were writing potentially portable code, I would NOT use or recommend using the dbm(3) routines. The routines do some strange things with casting pointers around. For machines which care about alignment of types, such as longs on a double-word boundary or ints on a word boundary, the dbm routines cause core-dumps from trying to store such beasts on arbitrary byte boundaries. Sincerely, Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen