Re: [MacPerl] Using Mac NDBM files with Unix Perl

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

roger@umich.edu writes:
>On Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:20:53 -0800 (PST) jerry@pwa.acusd.edu (Jerry Stratton)
>wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to upload some MacPerl NDBM files to my Unix site for web
>>use. Do I need to do some sort of conversion? My MacPerl databases are
>>single file; Unix Perl seems to expect ".pag" and ".dir" files.
>
>On the UNIX side, you need to say
>
>     use DB_File;
>
>before doing any "dbm" accessing -- that way, UNIX will expect the same
>database files as you're making on the Mac (as long as you transfer in
>binary, etc)
>
>DB_File requires the "Berkeley DB" library to be installed on your system.
>If you don't have that installed, you won't be able to do this.

Roger is right, but if Berkeley DB is not already installed, it might be easier
to dump out the DBM file to a linear text file, transfer it, and then undump
it.

Matthias

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