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From: mat@cdbhp1.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Problem with rn
Message-ID: <29@cdbhp1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:46:06 GMT
Reply-To: mat@cdbhp1.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Organization: Emory University Cardiac Data Bank
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	Help!

	I've got a problem getting rn running just right on my
	9000/835.

	It works fine without "DBM", but I'd like cross-posted articles
	to be read only once, but when I turn on dbm, problems arise.

	In bits.c I get a bus error at the fseek in the following code.
	I guess the pointer (rhs.dptr) is pointing somewhere weird.

	Anybody already dealt with this?

	
	...

	lhs.dptr = ident_buf;		/* look up article by id */
	lhs.dsize = strlen(lhs.dptr) + 1;
	rhs = fetch(lhs);		/* fetch the record */
	if (rhs.dptr == NULL)		/* if null, nothing there */
	    goto wild_goose;
	fseek (hist_file, *((long *)rhs.dptr), 0);	/* this bombs!!!! */
					/* datum returned is position in hist file */
	fgets (xref_buf, BUFSIZ, hist_file);

	...

	Thanks,

	Mat
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