Thanks Brian, Dave and Howard.
Brian Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jay Francis wrote:
>
> > When I use 21 as the size for the new record I get an error message
> > Application (1.0) called SysFatal Alert with the message: "DataMgr.c,
> > Line 7025,DmWrite:DmWriteCheck failed"
> >
> > When I use 22 everything works perfectly.
> >
> > Am I not seeing something obvious?
> >
> > typedef struct {
> > UInt16 waterbody; //max value = 9999, 2 bytes
> > Char surveyDate[11]; // = 01/01/1994, 11
> > bytes includes null terminator
> > UInt16 area; //max value = 999, 2 bytes
> > UInt16 method; //max value = 999, 2 bytes
> > UInt16 station; //max value = 999, 2 bytes
> > UInt16 effort; //max value = 9999, 2 bytes
> > } InfoRecordStruct; // 21 bytes
>
> The size of that string buffer is likely being rounded up to the nearest
> 2-byte boundary, so it actually takes up 12 bytes instead of 11.
>
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