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From: nagel@wintermute.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Tom Christiansen's man program no longer works with pl28
Keywords: perl pl28 man xenix
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Date: 5 Sep 90 18:52:13 GMT
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bll@seer.UUCP (Brad Lanam) writes:

>    I just brought perl up to patchlevel 28, and everything except
>Tom Christiansen's man program seems to work.  It can't seem to find
>anything in the dbm database.  I rebuilt the database, but that didn't
>help.  He uses those eval things...  I can't figure out how to print
>out what is in the dbm array.

>    Has anyone else had this problem?
>    I'm running Xenix 2.3.2.

Yes.  I'm running pl28 on a Sequent Symmetry (Dynix 3.0.12) and it
also exhibits the same problem.  While in the debugger, I can print
keys(dbm00) and values(dbm00), but actually referencing
$dbm00{some_key} fails for whatever (valid) key is used.  I don't
think it is a bug in man, but a bug in dbm access under pl28.

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