Sorry I already deleted the mail from Andy that triggered my attention He was summarizing the different DB options as of the perl5 perspective
There is also a rather new version available: QDBM It got me confused because the HP porting center has put a prcompiled version for HP-UX on their mirrors, and the link (underscored) made me read that as gdbm-1.8.12 , instead of qdbm-1.8.12 and I thought that the most recent version of gdbm available was 1.8.3 (so close it triggers my attention) http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.3, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org