reading databases from perl?

[David Robinson (AU)]

Hello Celia


I have been reading the SN database externally, but not
with perl. I previously did some hacking using dbdump,
which is distributed with SN. At present I am trying to
build a PHP extension module to read the database.

Apparently you can also access the database using tcl;
SN is mostly written in TCL.

The database format is berkeley DB 1.85 (a very old format)
which can be found at http://www.sleepycat.com/ .

Perhaps you could build the static database library, link
it into a shared library, then access it using perl.


Regards
David Robinson

-----Original Message-----
From: Celia McInnis [ mailto:mcinnisc@omnisig.com ]
Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2001 14:28
To: Source Navigator
Subject: reading databases from perl?


Can anyone tell me how I can read the source-navigator databases from
perl?

Thanks,
Celia McInnis