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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: dbm & perl under Mess-DOS?
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.220537.6657@holos0.uucp>
Date: 6 Dec 90 22:05:37 GMT
References: <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) writes:
>
=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've just finished putting a lot of changes into Mess-dos perl.  Larry
has the patches and has put the .exe up for ftp.

I've been playing with trying to get more memory available.  I'm working
(slowly, I don't make any money at this) on a custom overlay scheme that
should free up about 150K at very little execution cost.  I doubt that
gdbm will fit and allow anything useful to be done without a solution to
the memory squeeze.

Anyway, dbm is one real hot-buttom for DOS users and I'd sure like to get
it into the DOS version.  I don't have ftp access.  Could someone
who has this package make arangements to send it to me?  (Don't everyone
mail me an n-part package. :-)
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