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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!wizard.pn.com!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Bob Donahue <donahue@skepsis.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DBM functions for PERL!!! Date: 20 Dec 1995 00:26:43 GMT Organization: Skepsis Research and Development Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4b7l83$q9v@sundog.tiac.net> References: <4b1103$ate@news1.wolfe.net> <4b1spn$fac@spectator.cris.com> <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951218093132.12397B-100000@server.esva.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: omphalos.skepsis.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 1.1 i386) X-URL: news:Pine.BSD/.3.91.951218093132.12397B-100000@server.esva.net personnel@smmedia.com (Personnel Department) wrote: >I am trying to manage some basic dbmopen() calls within Perl and am >discovering (to my great chagrin) that BSD/OS doesn't seem to support >dbmopen() for writing, only reading. Anyone have a solution to this >nefarious problem? I'm just teaching myself Perl with this in mind, and it seems to work OK for me... But I can't figure out how to make the Perl crypt() work. Is it something like $a = crypt($b, $c); and how exactly does one decide on a value for $c??? Bob -- --- Commercial e-mail will be critiqued at $99.95 per 100 lines, 100 line minimum. Finder's fee for reporting Internet/USENET abuse is $29.95/instance.