Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl and dbz Keywords: perl, dbz, dbm Message-ID: <1990May9.163516.29960@eci386.uucp> Date: 9 May 90 16:35:16 GMT References: <90May7.143910edt.19586@me.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 24 In article jwc@unify.uucp (J. William Claypool) writes: > 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? > The only problem with this is that the DBZ routines have the same names > as the DBM routines they emulate. Can I put in my vote that perl support *one* dbm package at a time, but more importantly, can we get Configure/build support for Ozan Yigit's sdbm? (if you don't got V7 *or* a source license *or* BSD *or* some obscure versions of Xenix, you can't use a full-function dbm with Perl) Then Larry could distribute sdbm with perl and we'd *all* have consistent capability DBM support! Pretty please? -- Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis Ferret mailing list: eci386!ferret-list, psroff mailing list: eci386!psroff-list