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From: personnel@smmedia.com (Personnel Department)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: DBM functions for PERL!!!
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 11:58:11 GMT
Organization: Schmidt Mead Media, Inc.
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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?

Malcolm