According to Wade Williams: > Ok, dumb question. > > Is there any easy way to do DBM functions on the Mac? As Brian said - yes. Also, you can spin your own DBM functions through the use of SYSOPEN, SYSREAD, SYSWRITE, and SYSSEEK. You should also use the: use FileHandle; command when using them. (Oops - and the CLOSE statement too I guess. :-) ) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch