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Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: dbm (3) producing core dumps
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.745
Posted: Fri Feb  4 16:09:40 1983
Received: Sat Feb  5 05:20:50 1983

Sure, dbm produces core dumps when you use whatever it
returns you as some arbitrary type.  It's using a *static*
storage area!  The simple solution is to copy whatever
it returns to you into a variable of the appropriate
type.  Works well.

	Scott Deerwester
	Purdue University Libraries