First of all, thanks to all who replied:
Sam Nelson
John Speno
Curt Cranfield
Spider Boardman
Matt Mankins
Dusan Hadnadjev
`.db' files are characteristic of `Berkeley DB', the Perl `DB_File'
module. It sounds as if somehow (I'm not sure how) your Perl POP3 client is
trying to use DBM/NDBM/GDBM rather than Berkeley DB---hence the `.dir' and
`.pag' files, says Sam. He also suggested installing the newest Bekeley DB
from
http://www.sleepycat.com/.
It seems that DB's from Linux and DEC are not the same. Curt suggested
that. He also provided us with some very useful notes (I mean Perl scripts) on
how to convert data using text files. Spider gave us useful hints on how to
avoid DBM and NDBM usage in Perl programs. Thanks for that.
Matt (from tech. support of EMUMail, the POP3 client we use) suggested
installing DB_File module as a fix. Since that module was included on our DU
system, that did not solve the problem. He also suggested file conversion.
Dusan provided us with many useful hints and scripts.
*
Unfortunately, the problem remains unsolved. The client we has has no
source code included. It is encrypted and the license prevents us from
decrypting. All the Perl hints cannot help, and the only way is data
conversion. We are working hard on it.
Once again, thank you all for your help.
Marko.
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Marko Milivojevic <> + 381 11 636 550
System Administrator, Computer Centre <> M.Milivojevic_at_f.bg.ac.yu
Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade <>
http://www.f.bg.ac.yu
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Received on Fri Mar 12 1999 - 10:00:39 NZDT