This is the current beta release of my latest project. This attempts to implement an ISAM library. There are two parts to this project. The first is the ISAM library, which I've named "libidbm.a", and the second is a collection of command line interfaces to the libraries that I've written. This code is currently running on the following platforms: Wyse 3216 running SCO Xenix Generic 386/AT running ISC 2.2 DEC Station 5000 running Ultrix 4.2 Sequent running BSD IBM PS/2 running AIX v1.2.1 IBM PC/RT running AIX v2.2.1 and AOS IBM RS/6000 running AIX v3.1 IBM S/370 running AIX v1.2.1 Commodore Amiga running AmigaDOS Sun running SunOS 4.1.1 HP 300 and 700 running HP/UX 7.0 and 8.0 People currently porting the code to other platforms, or who were responsible for the original port to that platform include: James B. Davis (james@solbourne.com), SunOS 4.1.1 Robert C. Gore (rcgore@ease.austin.ibm.com), IBM RS/6000 Brent Nordquist (brent@limabean.veggard.mn.org), Amiga Steve Freed (sfreed@ariel.unm.edu), DEC Statation Andrew A. Timonin (tim@kaija.spb.su), ISC 2.2 Dr. Martin Beer (mdb@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci), HP 300 and 700 I'd like to extend my thanks to these people for their efforts. Many others sent in notes prior to my starting this list, and I am indebted to them as well. Also, thanks to Pete Bentley, who has been quite helpful in locating obscure and interesting bugs, as well as providing a few new features. More information about the programming interface to the library is contained in the file LIBRARY. Information about the commands is contained in the files DBSCHEMA, DBSCREEN, DBEDIT, DBCK, and FILE_STRUCT. There are a few other commands which are not well documented as of yet. More documentation will follow as time permits. IDBM is currently archived on ftp.nevada.edu [131.216.1.11] and is located in the /pub/idbm directory. Special thanks for Ron Young for providing this service. You may contact the author, John F Haugh II, at jfh@rpp386.cactus.org if you have further questions or suggestions.