At 02:16 PM 4/18/01 -0400, you wrote: >one more question -- yes, the db files WERE created on another machine, >but the "file" command shows them as being Berkeley DB format files, >correctly.... But I think I will go with trying to re-create... thanks for >the pointer. Then that's my prime suspicion. I just found an incompatibility in a DB file that was created on Linux and read on Solaris. The perls on those machines have differing versions of DB_File and probably also -ldbm. But file says the same thing for each. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies
