Ben Combee wrote in message <26233@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>> She was using DmStrCopy() ... (checking docs) ... hey! Are the
>> docs
>>
>(http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/palmos/DataAndResourceManager.html#927
4
>> 35)
>> right?? This states that DmStrCopy() doesn't actually do any copying,
>> that it only "Check the validity of the chunk pointer for the record and
>> make
>> sure that writing the record will not exceed the chunk bounds."
>
>The docs are wrong/incomplete. (David, Ken, anyone, please note!)
>
>DmStrCopy is exactly equivalent to a StrLen followed by a DmWrite.
>
A DmWrite() for the length returned by StrLen ... or for length+1?
If the former, then there will be no terminating NUL char written to
the database.
Perhaps Elizabeth could replace her DmStrCopy w/ the explicit
calls to StrLen and DmWrite and see if it changes the behavior.
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