Try this -
dbmopen(%DATA, "filename.db", 0600) || die "Darn!";

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The .dir and .pag is the ndbm database extension default on the Windows perl platform. Because when you try to open the file "filename" without the ".db" extension, the system will try to find matching "filename.dir" and "filename.pag" by default, when not found, the system will try to create one for you. Thus you need to be more specific and give "filename.db" instead.

Another suggestion: use tie() instead of dbmopen, and also checkout the DB_File (for Berkley DB), DBI/DBD modules on CPAN, which are great for database manipulations.

In reply to Re: newbie: DB versus DIR/PAG database files by Roger
in thread newbie: DB versus DIR/PAG database files by kleucht

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