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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: Mark Hunnibell <markh@connix.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DBM functions for PERL!!! Date: 17 Dec 1995 19:58:47 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4b1spn$fac@spectator.cris.com> References: <4b1103$ate@news1.wolfe.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc3-fddi.cris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) 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? Malcom: I don't think I've had this problem. I've got one script I use that uses dbmopen and I *think* it's saving the stuff in the file. Unfortunately, I cannot reach the machine this is on at the moment to absolutely confirm this. If you get no other replies and are still stumped, I'll try to confirm this over the next few days. Write to me directly if you need to. Mark Hunnibell markh@connix.com