in reply to Unwinding an (unknown type) DBM

SDBM manages to sometimes produce output: the first key (prefaced by a little garbage) includes both key and value info for ...
I suggest you get your hands on as many SDBM_File versions as you can and try them out until one works, or better yet, google for sdbm utilities.

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