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Date: Sun,  7 Mar 2004 11:12:36 -0500
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Can i pass null for the buffer and a pointer to the length, and get the
length needed to be allocated?
> No, it just truncates.  Suggest something else if you like.  It's easy enough to
> call werrstr in it.
> 
> | These do the same thing csgetval, ndbgetval and ndbloolval but take a
> | length for the buffer that gets filled.
> 
> How do they signal that it wasn't big enough?