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.TH MAKEGDBM 1 "25th December 2000"
.SH NAME
makegdbm \- Make a GDBM database from stdin 
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBmakegdbm\fP [options] gdbmname
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmakegdbm\fP allows a GBDM database to be formed
from input read from stdin. \fBgdbmname\fP 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 (:). 
.PP
Example:
.PP
this is a key:this is a value
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h, \--help: 
Print usage information.
.TP
.B \-u, \--undo: 
Print content of database file, one entry a line.
.SH SEE ALSO
gdbm(3)
.SH AUTHOR
Horms <horms@verge.net.au>