problem building wais indexes with freewais 0.4 and 0.5

From: <rosenblg_at_nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 23:19:16 -0400 (EDT)

i've built both freeWais 0.4 and 0.5 with both 'cc' and 'gcc'; whenever
i try to waisindex my information, it *always* core dumps with:

5893: 5320: Oct 16 22:58:49 1995: 100: Total word count for dictionary is: 1471132
5893: 5321: Oct 16 22:58:49 1995: -1: total_word_count not found in dictionary
.This is either an error,or the database is old.
5893: 5322: Oct 16 22:58:51 1995: -1: Could not read the dictionary block 5374394976, length 1000
RUNME: 5893 Memory fault - core dumped

in all cases, it is block 5374394976.

i've changed FILE_WRITE_DATE_SIZE to 8 as was posted to this list for version
2 of freeWais; before that, i would get file read/write errors.


does anyone have a fix for this?

                                        thanks,

                                        gary
Received on Tue Oct 17 1995 - 12:50:35 NZDT