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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Re: Perl and dbz
Message-ID: <90May9.091937edt.18968@me.utoronto.ca>
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Keywords: perl, dbz, dbm
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <90May7.143910edt.19586@me.utoronto.ca> <2646DFD4.744@tct.uucp>
Date: 9 May 90 13:19:42 GMT

In article <2646DFD4.744@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>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.

Isn't that more expensive than reading the dbz file directly?
Maybe I'll compile a perl with the dbz routines instead of the dbm
routines (perlz?).

Chip, could you mail me a copy of the log reporter?  Thanks.