The dbz package was "liberated" from C News. It is included with the GNU libio because it provides a fairly good work-out for a stdio implementation. The Makefile.in, configure.in, and stdio.h have been set up to test libio. ------ This is the new, improved, lemon-freshened :-) dbz. Just "make" will get you dbz.o and the dbz program. "make r" runs an extensive set of regression tests; most of the mysterious oddments lying around here are to do with that. "make rclean" cleans up after "make r". You probably want to inspect the #ifdef list early in dbz.c before compiling, although the defaults should work all right on most systems. If you are not building this as part of C News, you will need to change the -I option in FLAGS in the Makefile to "-I.", and delete the DBMLIBS and RFC lines entirely. That will break some of the regression tests; at some point I'll fix this. If you are using this independently from C News, you probably still want to look through ../notebook/problems, as some of the portability problems described in there can affect dbz.