Hi Bill,

You are right, I need to rewrite this part of the code.

Now, more or less, the code looks like:

if(IndexFile)
{
   my_file_struct=allocate_file_struct(filename);
}
else if (Metanames)
{
    if(my_file_struct)
    {
         parse_metanames_into_file_struct(my_file_struct);
    } else {
        print "Need a previous IndexFile",
   }
}

So, I need to ensure that a struct index file is present before parsing 
the Metanames to avoid a GPF.

The code should be changed to:

my_file_struct=allocate_file_struct(defaultfilename);
if(IndexFile)
{
    change_name_of_indexfile(filename):
}
If (Metanames)
{
..
}
...

I will fix it

cu
Jose

On 27 Nov 2000, at 11:19, Bill Moseley wrote:

> Swish 2.1.8
> 
> I'm confused about this error message:
> 
> swish: MetaNames requires a previous IndexFile directive
> 
> Why does MetaNames care about the IndexFile directive?   index.swish-e
> is the default if no IndexFile is used.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:moseley@hank.org
>