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From: stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: dbm & perl under Mess-DOS?
Message-ID: <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi>
Date: 5 Dec 90 07:46:41 GMT
Reply-To: stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910)
Organization: Nokia Research Center, Finland
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I have seen floating around several ftp sites a version of gnu dbm
(gdbm) for MS-DOS. Has anyone tried using this in conjunction with
perl for DOS so that the dbm functions are available?

I'm no (C) hacker, so I wouldn't attempt it myself - I just would
*very* much like to use perl's dbm functions under DOS (so that
I can have two identical applications both under UNIX and DOS
without having to modify the DOS app any.

Also, does anyone know of a (working) version of undump() under
DOS?

(Personally, I *hate* DOS and would love to work only with UNIX,
but most of the end user machines here are PC's....(sigh)....)

Thanks to anyone who can help (and does ;-)


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