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From: cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis Conkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: problem with spacewar
Message-ID: <2876@druco.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 88 15:03:15 GMT
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in article <2718@juniper.UUCP>, johnk@juniper.UUCP (John Knutson) says:
> Posted: Wed Jun  1 19:12:47 1988
> 
> I tried compiling spacewar, and with a few modifications, everything compiled.
> then when make started trying to link things together, it tried to use a lib
> called dbm. the modifications i had made (to this supposedly sysV compatible
> program) were to change the including so that it was the local version of
> dbm.h and not the system version.  I don't know why it was assumed that sysV
> has this dbm stuff whatever it is, or even if sysV is supposed to have it,
> but if anyone knows how i can get this stuff compiled somehow, i would
> appreciate it... thanks
> -- 
I had the same experience on my SYstem V system. - What is libdbm.a ?


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