According to Don Brady:
> Let me try to explain better:
>
> (1) ht:://Dig comes with and uses Berkeley DB 1 (an older version of
> Berkeley DB).
The db/README file in the 3.1.5 source distribution states:
This is version 2.6.4 (12/16/98) of Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB
product.
Is this version number different from the DB versions to which you're
referring?
> (2) Whatsnew.pl uses the BerkeleyDB Perl interface which states in part:
> "BerkeleyDB is a module which allows Perl programs to make use of the
> facilities provided by Berkeley DB version 2 or 3. (Note: if you want to
> use version 1 of Berkeley DB with Perl you need the DB_File module)."
>
> Thus one cannot use whatsnew.pl with htdig as far as I can determine,
> because they require different versions of Berkeley db itself (version 2 or
> 3 for whatsnew versus version 1 for htdig).
Well, I haven't personally used whatsnew.pl, but it was written to work
with htdig 3.1.5, and others do use it successfully. I don't know the
root cause of the incompatibility you're observing on your system, but
I can assure you it's not universal. You're not the first person ever
to try out this script. Jumping to the broad and absolute conclusion
that one cannot use this script with htdig does little to contribute to
finding the incompatibility on your system.
Joe, as someone with more experience with the whatsnew.pl script, can you
make any suggestions as to what may be the problem on Don's system?
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