I posted this message already but, its still not working. 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. Is it necessary to install the DB_FILE module separately, even though perl comes with it..and i have Berkeley4.x installed and perl-DB_FILE1.808. the documentation says, it should work even with BerkeleyDB2.x or 3.x . 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 (($key,$val) = each %TEST) {
    print $key, ' = ', unpack('L',$val), "\n";
}
dbmclose(%TEST);
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