I am having troubles settng up an SDBM file. I read the SMALL documenation and it displayed the exention .dbmx, so I used it. But when I execute this, it creates 2 files. name.dbmx.pag and name.dbmx.dir. Are neither of these the database? I am used to using DB_file which created a name.db but I can't get SDBM to work.

No errors or anything, it just won't store my data while converting DB_File scripts to SDBM_File. 

my %db;
use SDBM_File;
my $db = "name.dbmx";


tie %db, "SDBM_File", "$db", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0644, or die "Cannot op
+en file 'db': $!\n";

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In reply to creating SDBM_File by Anonymous Monk

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