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-.TH DBOPEN 3 1994-01-02 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH DBOPEN 3 2012-04-23 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.UC 7
.SH NAME
dbopen \- database access methods
.BI " const void *" openinfo );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.IR "Note well" :
+This page documents interfaces provided in glibc up until version 2.1.
+Since version 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces.
+Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the
+.I libdb
+library instead.
+
.BR dbopen ()
is the library interface to database files.
The supported file formats are btree, hashed and UNIX file oriented.