In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211281133130.12042-100000 at puck.litech.org>, "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote; } By the way, are we supposed to free the pointer OVsearch() returns in } &data? That should be done in OVclose(). So we must not free such pointer in the program which uses overview api. -- Katsuhiro Kondou