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Fix msenvironment when empty and used with dumb backend

Zbigniew Reszela requested to merge github/fork/reszelaz/issue1425_part2 into develop

This is an improved version of #1514 which was finally reverted in #1517.

Empty environments used with the dumb backend, when this is never correctly closed [*], fails to open with the 'w' flag. This is because the .dir file is never created and it is necessary to determine the backend by the dbm.whichdb().

Avoid this problem by always closing the dbm. Actually this is only necessary for the dumb backend but do it for gnu as well - it does not harm and makes the code cleaner.

[*] The MacroServer process currently crashes at exit - see: #719

Fixes #1425 (closed).

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