database corruption

[Matthias Andree]

Dave Lovelace <dave at firstcomp.biz> writes:

> For me it seemed to be going on forever (on goodlist.db), so I killed
> it & started checking.  There are some things that seem to be out of
> order (but this might be result of embedded control characters)

No, BerkeleyDB is fully transparent for control characters. Unless you
meant your console moving the cursor around.

> but it definitely starts looping & keeps it up forever until killed.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix it without losing everything?

See my other mail sent a minute ago.

-- 
Matthias Andree