using memo fields on the fly?

[Howard Wolowitz]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: using memo fields on the fly?


>> > Ken,
>> > Did you see my note about the SEGV I was getting? Using the code you
>> > suggested, it core dumps immediately. Did/does this not happen when you
>> > run it?
>> [...]
>>
>> It's working on my Windows box.  I haven't tried a *nix box yet.
>>
>> --
>> KenBrody at BestWeb dot n
>
> Funny thing is, it "used" to work on my Unix box... I think. In fact, I 
> was
> just going to show someone in the FP Room how to do it when it kept
> breaking. I had just done almost the very same code a week or so ago... 
> and
> I don't remember any core dumps.
>
> John

I haven't tried to duplicate the failure but when I played with memo fields 
a while ago I found that if I was on a free record I needed to issue a 
"write' before the memo field would work without a SEGV.

Howie