fix the badspotter / bad node stuff being put all into baddx

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 6c97a796c66b691dcddb4c5d40706f2de336a1df..9a8e8aec6876afb41f9e7a1ff021164f5576f1b5 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+02Jul02=======================================================================
+1. Fixed the problem with badspotter or badnode being set to baddx if either
+of the data files are missing. 
 25Jun02=======================================================================
 1. as predicted there was an error in the Prefix routine, I have improved it.
 24Jun02=======================================================================

diff --git a/perl/DXHash.pm b/perl/DXHash.pm
index 54faad9bf4d586b0ddb79e63793f6cbe96c978f4..1ee8bb099bd2082938b2ba2f9b89ab9f118a7257 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXHash.pm
+++ b/perl/DXHash.pm
@@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ sub new
 {
        my ($pkg, $name) = @_;
        my $s = readfilestr($main::data, $name);
-       my $self = eval $s if $s;
+       my $self = undef;
+       $self = eval $s if $s;
        dbg("error in reading $name in DXHash $@") if $@;
-       $self = bless {name => $name}, $pkg unless $self;
+       $self = bless({name => $name}, $pkg) unless defined $self;
        return $self;
 }