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From: Joachim.Wunder@lrz-muenchen.de (Joachim Wunder)
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Subject: NDBM incompatibilities between Perl 5.004 and C - Help!
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:10:00 GMT
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Hi!

First of all I thought this is a Perl problem, so I consulted the appripriate
newsgroups. But people told me that this has to be a FreeBSD problem:

I installed Perl 5.004 out of the ports section and am trying to create a NDBM
database (read/write) which I wanna read under C afterwards.

The problem: Perl creates it like `test.db´ (1 File) and C with #include
             <ndbm.h> expects it to be in 2 Files, like `test.pag´ and
             `test.dir´.

People are telling me that I need re-install Perl so that both Perl and C will
use the same system call. They claim that both NDBMs are for sure compatible!


Please, I have FreeBSD 2.2.1, could anyone enlighten me?
I am working on a bigger project with it (diploma thesis), and I am stuck in the
middle. :(

Thanks for ANY hint,
Joachim
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Email: Joachim.Wunder@LRZ-Muenchen.DE