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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: dbm and news history
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.130242.11596@pegasus.com>
Date: 11 Mar 90 13:02:42 GMT
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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I'm having a little trouble figuring out just how to use the dbm stuff
in perl.  Can someone give me an example of how to find an entry in
/usr/lib/news/history given the usual key (e.g. <123@xyz.UUCP>),
assuming the usual multi-megabyte history{,.pag} files?

Thanks.

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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com