Yeah it worked! I simply changed the '/usr/lib/news/history' for
'/etc/aliases' and
the script showed the file contents.
But, why? Why dbmopen didn't work?
thanks,
Bruno.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: dbmopen can't open /etc/aliases.db file
> Bruno Negrao - Perl List wrote:
>
> > Ok david.
> >
> > Could you send me a code example of a database file being opened for
> > reading with tie?
> >
> > thanks,
> > bnegrao.
>
> use NDBM_File;
> tie(%HIST, 'NDBM_File', '/usr/lib/news/history', 1, 0);
> while (($key,$val) = each %HIST) {
> print $key, ' = ', unpack('L',$val), "\n";
> }
> untie(%HIST);
>
> this example is directly from perldoc -f tie
>
> david
>
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