I finally have a clue by looking at detailed output where this error occurs.
I see the sequence:
d := open("C:/Cygwin/home/ke/db/mkr.ho","d")
i := open("C:/Cygwin/home/ke/kb/initial.mkr","r")
v := fetch(d,"variable")
run time error 190
dbm database expected
offending value: file(C:/Cygwin/home/ke/db/mkr.ho)
It appears that the code is checking the mode of the last file opened
instead of the mode of the file where fetch failed.
Dick McCullough
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:10:02 -0800
Subject: [Unicon-group] Unicon doesn't remember its GDBM files
Seems to me I encountered this bug last year, and somehow worked around it.
But it's biting me again with the latest Windows binaries.
1) I open GDBM file with mode "d"
2) my fetch fails with error message: "dbm database expected" That error
message is obviously wrong, and may be taking the rapfor many other kinds of
errors. I don't know what the real error(s) is/areand don't know how to fix
this problem. Sometimes I can access the dbm file, and sometimes I get this
false error. I tried to pin down this problem using the attached program, but
it didn't help.I still don't see any pattern in the errors.
Dick McCullough
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