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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:31:01 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Jeff Lu <jklcom AT mindspring DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why is dbm_store saving garbage to file?
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Jeff Lu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to save some data using dbm but what's being written to the file
> is just gibberish.  The same code works in Unix/Linux.  Here's the code:
> 
>         dbm_local = dbm_open (database, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 00664);
>         if(dbm_local)
>         {
>           strcpy(buffer, "CurrentOrderNumber");
>           key.dptr = buffer;
>           key.dsize = strlen(buffer)+1;
>           return_data = dbm_fetch(dbm_local, key);
>           if(return_data.dptr)
>             sprintf(count, "%d", atoi(return_data.dptr)+1);
>           else
>             strcpy(count, "1");
>           data_data.dptr = count;
>           data_data.dsize = strlen(count)+1;
>           dbm_store(dbm_local, key, data_data, DBM_REPLACE);
>           dbm_close (dbm_local);
>         }
> 
> Thanks

In which library are dbm_open, dbm_fetch, dbm_store, and dbm_close
implemented?  Are you using ndbm?  dbm?  Berkeley db?  or gdbm?  (Note
that only gdbm is a supported, 'official' cygwin package.)

--Chuck

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