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     1.4 +GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that
     1.5 +use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
     1.6 +These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
     1.7 +manipulate a hashed database.
     1.8 +
     1.9 +The basic use of GDBM is to store key and data pairs in a data file.
    1.10 +Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data item.
    1.11 +
    1.12 +The library provides primitives for storing key and data pairs,
    1.13 +searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key along
    1.14 +with its data.
    1.15 +It also support sequential iteration over all key and data pairs in
    1.16 +a database.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the package
    1.19 +also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces