Dan Massey wrote: > Then 'makemap hash testfile < testfile' , so now I have a testdile.db as > well with one entry int as such: That's probably a Berkeley DB file, not a DBM file. You can access it like this: use DB_File; my %hash; tie %hash, 'DB_File', '/etc/mail/testfile.db'; # Do stuff with %hash untie %hash; -- David.