in reply to DBM Portability?

DBM files tend to be very sparse. Depending on how you copy the files from one machine to another, you might be corrupting the file.

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Re: Re: DBM Portability?
by rdfield (Priest) on Oct 03, 2002 at 08:10 UTC
    In addition to the comments by hossman: although not experienced personally I've heard from a very good source that tar doesn't deal with sparse files properly: use dd and cpio instead.

    rdfield

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