Re: HTAGS write error

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

> I can give you more info, but it seems something else is the problem.
> Thanks

In GLOBAL-5.8, I changed some processing of htags(1) to use a facility
of BSD db library described below.  It is likely not to work in Windows.
If so, GLOBAL-5.7.7 or the former will work well.
If this is the cause of your trouble, I may revive the former code in the
next version.

NAME
     dbopen -- database access methods

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <db.h>
     #include <fcntl.h>
     #include <limits.h>

     DB *
     dbopen(const char *file, int flags, int mode, DBTYPE type,
         const void *openinfo);

DESCRIPTION
     The dbopen() function is the library interface to database files.  The
        ...
     The dbopen() function opens file for reading and/or writing.  Files never 
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     intended to be preserved on disk may be created by setting the file argu-
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     ment to NULL.
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