solution found; Thank you!

[A. Jones]

On 02 Apr 2002 17:08:36 +0200, loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de (Martin
v. =?iso-8859-1?q?L=F6wis?=) wrote:

>netzapper at magicstar.net (A. Jones) writes:
>
>> Any insight would be much appreciated.
>
>Seeking and text mode does not really mix well. When you write to a
>text file, the C library may expand or collapse newline characters,
>and perform other modifications. So if you write n bytes to a text
>file, that doesn't mean that n bytes end on disk.
>
>I recommend to open the file in binary.
>
>Regards,
>Martin
>

Thank you, you put me on the right track.  file("QOD.qdb", 'ab') is
working perfectly.

Your help was much appreciated, Martin


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