At 10:44 AM 2/14/00 +0000, Williams, Ivor wrote:
>I know that AnyDBM_File and SDBM_File come as standard with the Perl
>distribution, but the documentation (pod) suggests that there are limits to
>the capacity and performance with SDBM_File.
Yep, it's not the snappiest of performers, that's for sure. And there are
keysize limits and such.
>I know gdbm is available free from gnu. Has anybody ever put this up on VMS?
>Any gotchas?
I got GDBM working on VMS a few years ago. It required some hacking to get
around some bad coding practices, and it was single-process access only,
but it did work.
Do you need database transportability, or just the same interface
everywhere? If the latter, maybe someone can get VMS::IndexedFile a
xDBM-compatible interface and you can use that in your Any_DBM qw string...
Dan
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