stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) (12/05/90)
I have seen floating around several ftp sites a version of gnu dbm (gdbm) for MS-DOS. Has anyone tried using this in conjunction with perl for DOS so that the dbm functions are available? I'm no (C) hacker, so I wouldn't attempt it myself - I just would *very* much like to use perl's dbm functions under DOS (so that I can have two identical applications both under UNIX and DOS without having to modify the DOS app any. Also, does anyone know of a (working) version of undump() under DOS? (Personally, I *hate* DOS and would love to work only with UNIX, but most of the end user machines here are PC's....(sigh)....) Thanks to anyone who can help (and does ;-) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Patrick Stickler University of Helsinki stickler@cc.Helsinki.FI ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) (12/07/90)
In article <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) writes: > =I have seen floating around several ftp sites a version of gnu dbm =(gdbm) for MS-DOS. Has anyone tried using this in conjunction with =perl for DOS so that the dbm functions are available? I've just finished putting a lot of changes into Mess-dos perl. Larry has the patches and has put the .exe up for ftp. I've been playing with trying to get more memory available. I'm working (slowly, I don't make any money at this) on a custom overlay scheme that should free up about 150K at very little execution cost. I doubt that gdbm will fit and allow anything useful to be done without a solution to the memory squeeze. Anyway, dbm is one real hot-buttom for DOS users and I'd sure like to get it into the DOS version. I don't have ftp access. Could someone who has this package make arangements to send it to me? (Don't everyone mail me an n-part package. :-) -- Len Reed Holos Software, Inc. Voice: (404) 496-1358 UUCP: ...!gatech!holos0!lbr
dds@cc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) (12/09/90)
In article <345@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) writes: > >I have seen floating around several ftp sites a version of gnu dbm >(gdbm) for MS-DOS. Has anyone tried using this in conjunction with >perl for DOS so that the dbm functions are available? I have compiled under MS-DOS and MSC 6.0 an experimental version of Perl at patch level 29 with a home brewn version of GNU dbm version 3. As soon as I upgrade both to the most recent versions I will make them available. Using gdbm with the MS-DOS perl is useful in situations where there is not not enough memory to hold associative arrays in memory. Diomidis -- -- Diomidis Spinellis Internet: dds@cc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing UUCP: ...!ukc!iccc!dds Imperial College JANET: dds@uk.ac.ic.cc