Hello Jason,

DC> char *malloc();

 JB> why not #include the header for it?  Do this instead:
 JB> #include 

People keep asking me this.. the example I got out of my book on C, 
includes that declaration.. I am also including  for other things
that was just code fragments I posted.

If I comment out that decalration, my program runs out of memory within minutes.


DC>         if ((fp=fopen("dictphse.dat","r")) == NULL)

 JB> do you ever close this file ? ( flcose(fp) )

I'll check, but I'm pretty sure I did..

DC> I don't know if it makes a diffence, but I am using the FILE *fp;
DC> declaration in all file-operation files.
DC> If needed, I can post the file functions that mess up. Thanks...

 JB> If you want them all to refer to the same physical 
 JB> variable there had better
 JB> be all but one of those declarations being "extern FILE 
 JB> *fp", but from your
 JB> example above they are local variables to separate 
 JB> functions that each fopen a

Exactly.. they were all local to the functions, with one global FILE *fp;
used for main() I think....

caio!

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