Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!primerd!zaphod!doug From: doug@zaphod.prime.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Problems with ndbm Message-ID: <34200004@zaphod> Date: 8 Aug 89 18:04:00 GMT References: <34200002@zaphod> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:zaphod:34200002:zaphod:34200004:000:600 Nf-From: zaphod.prime.com!doug Aug 8 14:04:00 1989 Chris - thanks very much. It was not stated anywhere in the man page (aren't man pages just the niftyest place to go for information?) that the storage is sacred and an obvious hack was to modify the value in place. I've fixed my code to do a bcopy to a buffer before playing with the data and now it's all copacetic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Rand Internet: doug@primerd.prime.com Snail: Prime Computer, 500 Old Conn Path, MS10C-17, Framingham, Ma 01701 Disclaimer: PRIME doesn't believe a word I say, and fewer that I write.