Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl

In article <kebsch.716557576@neurotic> kebsch@neurotic.sni.de (Waldemar Kebsch) writes:
>I have fetched PERL419X.ZIP from Simtel and it runs fine. Because I have
>no experience with dbm I wrote a simple example using dbmopen(), dbmclose(),
>etc.. It works fine, but the [????????.dir] file is only 0 bytes long???
[...]
>Hmm .., what's going wrong (what I am doing wrong?) ?

There is nothing wrong.  The GNU-dbm library, which is what is probably
used by the Perl version you are using,  stores all data in the .pag
file.  The .dir file is not used.  Under Unix the two files are linked
together in order to keep their timestamps synchronised.  Under MS-DOS
the .dir file is just a dummy zero-length file.

Diomidis
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