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From: dds@cc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: dbm & perl under Mess-DOS?
Summary: I have an experimental version
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.135228.24467@cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Dec 90 13:52:27 GMT
References: <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi>
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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 have compiled under MS-DOS and MSC 6.0 an experimental version of Perl 
at patch level 29 with a home brewn version of GNU dbm version 3.  
As soon as I upgrade both to the most recent versions I will make 
them available.  Using gdbm with the MS-DOS perl is useful in 
situations where there is not not enough memory to hold associative 
arrays in memory.

Diomidis
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