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From: rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Robert Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Trouble with the File Manager
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.215438.17449@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 90 21:54:38 GMT
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I've recently written a routine which is supposed to write data
from one of my global data structures to a file.  The problem is,
it is not writing the data.  It *is* writing some of the string 
literals I have defined in another part of my program.  

The code in question looks like this:

count=1;
...
for (i=0....i++)
result = FSWrite(file, &count, &theClause[i]);
...

I looked at this code with the debugger, and at the time of execution
of the FSWrite, count was still equal to 1, and theClause[i] was still
the value I expected, but a different value was written to the file.

And yes, I know there are better ways to write a data structure to a
file than one byte at a time.  I tried them first, and I got the same
result.

Any ideas?

Robert
rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu