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# README
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# $Id: README,v 1.8 2000/11/30 06:44:24 jonathan Exp $
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# Copyright (c) 2000 Jonathan B. Leffert <jonathan@leffert.net>
# All rights reserved.

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### Introduction
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This is a collection of small binaries (i.e., primatives) to perform
shell-based access to and modification of GDBM databases.

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### Caveat
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This is now a development version.  The code may crash, explode, or be
otherwise unstable.  Use this at your own risk.

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### Licensing
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This software is distributed under your choice of mutually exclusive
terms of the following licenses:

o The Perl Artistic License
  (http://www.perl.com/pub/language/misc/Artistic.html)
o The GNU GPL, version 2
  (http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
o The FreeBSD License
  (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html)

You must pick one and only one.

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### Warranty
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This software is distributed "as-is" and carries with it no warranty
whatsoever.  The author disclaims any and all liability in regard 
to this software.

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### Building
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This should build cleanly with a "make all" under most GNU/Linux systems.
Then, as root, do a "make install" and all should work.  n.b.: this will
install under the /opt/pkgs/gdbm_primitive-<version> directory.

On Solaris, things are more complicated as gdbm is not, by default,
installed.  You must first get, compile, and install gdbm and edit the
Makefile to reflect the locations of the libraries.

On IRIX 6.5.x, it seems to build cleanly now.  Make sure your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is set to point to the location of libgdbm.

Do email me (jonathan@leffert.net) with build results.

