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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems with dbm and perl
Date: 1 Jun 1995 22:37:13 +0200
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kong@news (Kong Eng) writes:

>Has any experience a problem with perl-4.036 and perl-5.000 with dbm.  I
>can't seem to get to pass the dbm test.  Here are the results:

If I recall right, in perl5 you can specify to use db (the very
newest)  which will work. In Perl4 the tests check the existance of
db,{dir,pag} which fail, as in db there is no .dir and .pag file.

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