------------------------------------ DB_File::DB_Database 0.031 ------------------------------------ This is the README file for the DB_File::DB_Database packages. Please read it if you install this module for the first time or if there are some problems with the module. This module can handle DB_File database(DB_HASH, key/value pairs) as a table. It also can create index files(DB_BTREE) to faster the searching speed. It is an Beta version, use it at your own risk. Installation: Perl 5.004 is required. DB_File is required. To verify the DB_File is installed and work well first is better. Download the tar.gz, unpack it, change to the DB_File::DB_Database directory. Then do perl Makefile.PL make make install instead of just perl Makefile.PL, and in your scripts do use lib '/your/directory'; use DB_File::DB_Database; You are free to just copy the 'lib' directory where you want it to have. This should work. Problems and bug reports: run the flowering to test the package. t/1_open_close.t t/2_read_write.t If you found any bugs or make any patches, I would be appriciate to hear from you. If it works for you: I'd appreciate any message if you use the module and find it usefull -- I'm just curious what tasks people use the module for and what they expect from it. You can of course also send something more valuable. Copyright: (c) 2001 Ran Ningyu, rny@yahoo.com.cn http://perl.yesky.net/ at SouthEast University, Nanjing, China. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. History: 0.031 2001.10.22: Fix test fail bug, thanks to Jörgen 0.03 2001.05.14: Fix some tiny bugs, Perl -w could run 0.02 2001.05.02: Fixed some tiny bugs. 0.013 2001.04.22: First Released Privately