Xref: utzoo news.software.b:4705 comp.lang.perl:1270 Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl and dbz Keywords: perl, dbz, dbm Message-ID: <2646DFD4.744@tct.uucp> Date: 8 May 90 15:03:47 GMT References: <90May7.143910edt.19586@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 14 According to eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick): >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? There's no need. The C News distribution includes the program "newshist", which prints the history entries of the articles named on its command line. Collect article IDs, open "newshist @IDS|", and read those history lines. The recently posted "logscan" script uses "newshist". If anyone wants a copy, just drop me a line. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,