Re: edit a file cause unexpected execution

[esia168@xxxxxxxxx (William)]

Thanks for the reply.

> Have you also modified the index.noun file to account for your changes?

> index.noun contains a list of byte offsets into data.noun, and any changes to
> the latter mean the former is invalid.

I have modified the index.noun too, 

> Alternatively, I wonder what platform you are working on? Records in the 
> WordNet
> files must be terminated by just a single "\x0A". If you are working on a
> non-Unix platform that uses a multi-character record separator then the 
> records
> will be a different length, so invalidating the index file.

I am working on Linux william-pc 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 
UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Ok, I got to admit something, after knowing the seek function, only today I 
realize how actually determine the synset id which is equivalient to byte 
offset that you said. Before this I thought the synset id is determined by some 
kind of database auto-increment id/ primary key thing. lol. 

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