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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.maz.net!news.m-u-b.de!hamlet.m-u-b.de!toni From: toni@hamlet.m-u-b.de (Toni Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DBM functions for PERL!!! Date: 18 Dec 1995 22:41:44 GMT Organization: Mueller & Brandt GbR (c/o info@m-u-b.de) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4b4qn8$5bl@hamlet.m-u-b.de> References: <4b1103$ate@news1.wolfe.net> Reply-To: support@m-u-b.de NNTP-Posting-Host: hamlet.m-u-b.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Personnel Department (personnel@smmedia.com) wrote on Sun, 17 Dec 1995 11:58:11 GMT: > 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? Do you have /etc/spwd.db and such ? If yes then you do have dbmopen () for writing and probably need a perl book instead (Perl isn't that easy, especially on file handles and such). --Toni.