On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:37 AM, Christopher Morgan wrote: >I've had very good luck using DBM files to store, sort, >and retrieve MARC records.
I've only looked at DBM a little bit, but from what I saw, the versions available to me (in MacPerl, and possibly in Windows) would not allow storing MARC (in a raw string), since the field lengths or keys would be too big. The documentation also seemed to indicate a problem of portability, since each platform has different base DBM files. Anything that requires compiling non-Perl code poses a problem (for me, anyway, since the compiler (MPW) crashes my machine, and is a little out of my current range of understanding), so modules like DBI are not availble (for MacPerl 5.8.0a). Of course, I could be wrong, and would be very happy if that were the case. If only I could upgrade to MacOS X, but that is still a ways off. Thank you for your assistance, Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.inwave.com/eija
