From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pa:scott 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