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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
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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.