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From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Porting PERL on Decstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.0
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Date: 18 Mar 91 20:55:39 GMT
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In article <12540@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, koffi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (There will be enough room in HEAVENS for all of US) writes:
|> I would like to know if anybody has ported PERL on DECStation 5000 running
|> Ultrix 4.0. Are there any problems and what are the traps to avoid? 
|> Any suggestions and comments!

I have it working on Ultrix 4.2, and OSF/1 for the 5000. However, the dbm code
seems to be havign problems on the OSF/1 OS, which is demonstraited by the
following (data never gets written to the datafiles):

	exit 0 if ($#ARGV < 0);
	$dbname = $ARGV[0];
	dbmopen(%s,$dbname,0666);
	$s{'foo'}++;
	$s{'bar'}++;
	dbmclose(%stats);
	exit 0;

I am assuming that the problem is not in perl, but rather something that we
haven't discoved about OSF/1 (yet).

- Marc
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