RE: [MacPerl] MLDB question

[Greg Bartlett <gbartlett@metapath.com>]

Thanks Paul,

This did the trick.  I have FTP'd other files, and had them work correctly.
I must have previously forced the transfer type to be text.

Thanks again,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul J. Schinder [SMTP:schinder@pobox.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:57 AM
> To:	Greg Bartlett
> Cc:	macperl@macperl.org
> Subject:	Re: [MacPerl] MLDB question
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:36:00 -0700, Greg Bartlett wrote:
> >
> >I get an error when I try to use MLDB.  
> >My setup:
> >G3 DT/315 (OC from 266)
> >MacOS 8.6
> >MacPerl 5.2.0r4 (5.004)
> >
> >Simplest case:
> >---snip---
> >#!perl -w
> >use strict;
> >use MLDB qw/DB_File Storable/;
> >---snip---
> >
> >I get the error:
> >---snip---
> ># MLDBM.pm did not return a true value.
> >File 'Hawking HD:Desktop Folder:test.pl'; Line 3
> ># BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
> >File 'Hawking HD:Desktop Folder:test.pl'; Line 3
> >---snip---
> >
> >Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Change MLDBM.pm and whatever other files you installed with it from Unix
> text to Mac text. Perl 5.004 only likes files in the native text format.
> 
> >
> >Greg
> >
> 
> >
> 
> -------
> Paul J. Schinder
> schinder@pobox.com

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