.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The routine
-.IR dbopen
+.I dbopen
is the library interface to database files.
One of the supported file formats is record number files.
The general description of the database access methods is in
.PP
Because there can be no meta-data associated with the underlying
recno access method files, any changes made to the default values
-(e.g. fixed record length or byte separator value) must be explicitly
+(e.g., fixed record length or byte separator value) must be explicitly
specified each time the file is opened.
.PP
In the interface specified by