Re: tie on windows XP

[Corion]

I think at least DBM_File or GDBM_File should be available to you - at least, GDBM_File is available with my Strawberry Perl 5.16.

Alternatively, you can look whether DBM::Deep is available from PPM.

tie is a far more general mechanism that can be used to produce the mechanism that dbmopen used to produce, but its power is far larger than that.

[BillKSmith]

Thanks for the suggestions, but there are no DBM_File modules in the repository. Since my first post, I have found SDBM_File.pm in @INC. I do not know how it got there, but it works as advertised.