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Pquota version 1.1
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        This module is an attempt to provide an easy interface to a group
of DBM files used to store print quota information.  The main design goal
was to make writing UNIX printer interface scripts easy.
        The POD gives a good description of the data model for Pquota, and
explains all the methods and their uses.  We've also included a sample
interface script and a supporting script for it.  See samples/README for
more details.
        Please feel free to email us and let us know if this has been useful,
or if you've got any pointers or suggestions for us.


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INSTALLING
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The usual.

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

No big secrets here.  The tests are just there to make sure that your system
has working DBM modules.


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PREREQUISITES
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Bare minimum, Pquota needs MLDBM, which in turn requres Data::Dumper to convert
Perl data structures into strings, and SDBM_File to store them to disk.  But
MLDBM has options to use any of the *DBM_File modules instead of SDBM_File, and
either Storable or FreezeThaw instead of Data::Dumper.  And since the docs for
MLDBM recommend using something other than the default, so do I.


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CHANGES
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1.0 - 1.1:      - Added check for MLDBM in Makefile.PL
                - Dumped IO::File, since we didn't need it
                - Various performance tuning


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AUTHORS
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David Bonner <dbonner@cs.bu.edu>
http://www.cs.bu.edu/staff/TA/dbonner

Scott Savarese <savarese@cs.bu.edu>
http://www.cs.bu.edu/staff/TA/savarese


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THANKS
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Thanks to John Siracusa <siracusa@mindspring.com> for reminding us that it
might behoove us to worry about performance, and for his list of modest
suggestions.


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COPYRIGHT
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Copyright(c) 1998, 1999 David Bonner and Scott Savarese.  All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.