home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: dbm problems/questions (msdos-perl).
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.141755.25949@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:17:55 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <kebsch.716557576@neurotic>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com
- Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
- Lines: 14
-
- From the keyboard of kebsch@neurotic.sni.de (Waldemar Kebsch):
- :I have fetched PERL419X.ZIP from Simtel and it runs fine. Because I have
- :no experience with dbm I wrote a simple example using dbmopen(), dbmclose(),
- :etc.. It works fine, but the [????????.dir] file is only 0 bytes long???
-
- That's because you don't have enough stuff in it yet. Add more the
- the assoc array, and eventually it will have some size.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- echo "ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.";;
- --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
-