Evan Silberman <evan@jklol.net> wrote:
> Seems like the full history of DBM deserves some kind of lengthy
> academic tome, however:

First and final bump in case there are other HISTORY fans.

Evan

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 .%J USENIX proceedings
 .%D Winter 1992
 .Re
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .
 .Sh BUGS
 The typedef DBT is a mnemonic for
 .Dq data base thang ,
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 .Xr open 2 ,
 .Xr dbopen 3 ,
 .Xr hash 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm ndbm
+interface first appeared in
+.Bx 4.3
+and became a compatibility wrapper for the
+.Xr dbopen 3
+interface in
+.Bx 4.4 .