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NAME

       makegdbm - Make a GDBM database from stdin

SYNOPSIS

       makegdbm [options] gdbmname

DESCRIPTION

       makegdbm  allows  a  GBDM  database  to  be formed from input read from
       stdin. gdbmname is the name of the GBDM database  to  create,  ususally
       the  name  of this file will end in .db. If the file allready exists is
       will be overwritten. The format  of  the  input  is  key,  value  pairs
       separated by a colon (:).

       Example:

       this is a key:this is a value

OPTIONS

       -h, --help:
              Print usage information.

       -u, --undo:
              Print content of database file, one entry a line.

SEE ALSO

       gdbm(3)

AUTHOR

       Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

                              25th December 2000