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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
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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
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