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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Re: perl 4.0 with dbz and news history files
Message-ID: <91Jun18.190454edt.19908@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <2156@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:05:06 GMT

bms@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Bruce Schlobohm) writes:

>Is there a way that I can use perl (compiled with ndbm) on dbz files,
>and still use the dbmopen() and associative array?
>What am I missing?

Havent tried it yet but try relinking perl without -lndbm and *with*
dbz.o from the c-news distribution.  Call the executable  "perlz" or
somthing like that.

The nntp dist. with dbz does something to that effect.