Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!jwc From: jwc@unify.uucp (J. William Claypool) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl and dbz Keywords: perl, dbz, dbm Message-ID: Date: 8 May 90 17:29:30 GMT References: <90May7.143910edt.19586@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 20 In article <90May7.143910edt.19586@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: >I just tried reading a dbz history file with the dbm routines in Perl. >It didn't work, which didn't suprize me. So, has anyone hacked perl >to understand dbz files? Maybe a dbzopen() could be added? Since >Perl is such a report-based utility, I think it should be included. >Comments Larry? > >[DBZ is a DBM replacement that comes with the latest Cnews. It's >much faster than dbm for news applications.] > >...on the way to producing verbose news analysis. The only problem with this is that the DBZ routines have the same names as the DBM routines they emulate. -- Bill Claypool +1 916 920 9092 | I know what I know if you know what I mean jwc@unify.UUCP |-------------------------------------------- ...!{csusac,pyramid}!unify!jwc | SCCA SFR Solo II 74 es 1984 CRX 1.5