refer to ndbm

SCCS-vsn: old/libndbm/dbm.3 6.3

diff --git a/usr/src/old/libndbm/dbm.3 b/usr/src/old/libndbm/dbm.3
index db0630b..ef196fe 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/old/libndbm/dbm.3
+++ b/usr/src/old/libndbm/dbm.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 .\"
-.\"    @(#)dbm.3       6.2 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"    @(#)dbm.3       6.3 (Berkeley) %G%
 .\"
 .TH DBM 3X  ""
 .UC 4
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ dbminit, fetch, store, delete, firstkey, nextkey \- data base subroutines
 .B datum nextkey(key)
 .B datum key;
 .SH DESCRIPTION
+.ft B
+Note: the dbm library has been superceded by ndbm(3),
+and is now implemented using ndbm.
+.ft R
 These functions maintain key/content pairs in a data base.
 The functions will handle very large (a billion blocks)
 databases and will access a keyed item in one or two file system accesses.
@@ -94,6 +98,8 @@ Routines that return a
 .I datum
 indicate errors with a null (0)
 .I dptr.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+ndbm(3)
 .SH BUGS
 The `.pag' file will contain holes so that its apparent size is about
 four times its actual content.  Older UNIX systems may create real