>I think the right thing is to not call the append() function at all
>if there are no elements to output (nelem == 0). The problem itself
>is in macro OUTPUT in append.c, which just think it's always called
>with at least one record to print.
>So, I believe this is 'correct' fix.

	why not making append() check for nelem, or make it work for
	no-records case?

itojun