Still not working: I donno what the problem is. but it still says cant open file. I guess it must be problem with the DB_FILE module. I installed it as per the readme.txt in the DB_FILE module. I read the documentation too. Do I need to set a link or path variables etc..Would perl automatically recognize the DB_FILE module, no matter where it is installed. Thanks for your update. I have aproblem with opening the history file. it prints out the comment in the die case "can't open history file" and says line 7. can anyone help me out with this please. thanks in advance 
use DB_File;
use CGI;
use DirHandle;
use FileHandle;

dbmopen(%TEST, "/home/lab/history.db", 0666) or die "Can't open histor
+y file: $!";
while (($key) = each %TEST){
    print $TEST($key) 
}
dbmclose(%TEST);

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