It works on a unix server but not NT

[ianpowell]

I am reading a book called perl for dummies. It has a section on databases.
The example it shows using the following command.

dbmopen(HANDLE, filelocation, 0600);

I have written a program which works fine on my web site but not on my personal pc. On my website it creates a .db file and when ran on my own machine the same program generates a .dir and a .pag

Any ideas why. I am have tried installing perl 5.6 and in desperation loaded 5.8. Still no difference

 

[PaulTEG]

Are all the required packages installed on your local PC?

 

[ianpowell]

I have installed Activestate Perl 5.8

I have tried going into PPM and installing DB_File thinking that might be the problem.

When I try PPM it states it cannot find this package.

I tried CPAN and unless I misunderstood it said it was included in perl 5.8 and yet when I add the line : use DB_File : Perl responds with package not found.

I'm almost at the point of giving up.

 

[MikeLacey]

I would give up, to be honest. I've used dbm files a few times and now hate them with a passion that makes people nervous.

Do you have any other options? Could you, for instance, use MySQL as your database? Mike

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