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There are five widely-used DBM libraries
ODBM_File uses the original DBM library, called libdbm (1979)
NDBM_File uses an improved version called libndbm (1985)
GDBM_File uses the GNU project library, libgdbm (1990?)
SDBM_File uses a new version called libsdbm (1991)
DB_File uses the Berkeley DB library libdb (1993)
When you build Perl, it looks for each of these
It constructs and installs the tie modules for the ones you have
Exception: Perl comes with libsdbm, so you always have SDBM_File
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