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Re: Trying to work under NT 4
- To: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Trying to work under NT 4
- From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:23:30 -0500
- Cc: "Michael K. Jones" <mkjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mjd@xxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:24:56 PST." <19981208012456.24183.rocketmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
> I got it to work a week or so ago (I think). Just did the recommended
> changes:
>
> sub SEEK_SET { 2 }
No, SEEK_SET should be 0, not 2. It will still compile if you get it
wrong, but any feature that tries to use it will be broken.
> and changed the DB_File refs to use SDBM_File instead
This has a drawback: SDBM has a limit of 1024 characters per key; this
means that no zigzag cell will be able to hold more than 1024
characters of data.
DB_File is really a much better choice here.