I'm attempting to recover data from a trashed website; I believe the .pag & .dir files that are its databases are intact, but they came from a rather musty BSDI 2.x system. They were evidently created with old-fashioned dbmopen(). Moving the files to a BSDI 4.0.1 system has eliminated the "file too large" errors, but now trying to print them results in nothing at all. I'm using this wee script:

#!/usr/bin/perl5 -w

dbmopen(%db, 'member.dir', 0644) or die "Can't open member: $!\n";
foreach $i (keys %db) {
    print "$i ==> $db{$i}\n";
}

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It seems to make little difference whether I put in 'member', 'member.pag', or 'member.dir', as above. The script doesn't die, but neither does it print anything out. Trying to use DB_File and NDBM_File more directly doesn't seem to have panned out. A 'file member.dir' says this is an NDBM 1.x or GDBM file, and being on BSDI, I suspect it's probably NDBM. I've been unable to get GDBM_File working on the new system, though it appears to have gdbm installed. I'm going to pursue that tack a bit now, but thought I would post here and check back now and again to see if I'm being thoroughly stupid. Is there any hope?

--TQuid

In reply to .pag and .dir - what db format?? by TQuid

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