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in reply to Error when using dbmopen.

Looks like you have at least parts of a second Perl on your system (MSys 5.8, I guess), and both seem to mix. Clean up your system, i.e. uninstall MSys correctly and completely, or uninstall ActivePerl and use MSys Perl.

Alexander

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