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What's with all the cryptic error codes?
BTW, the error codes returned by CreateProcess() is no more cryptic ] than some of the weird ones I had to figure out with Unix and errno. But there are about 50 more of them to check than for fork(). Nonsense. There are only a small subset of error codes that can come back from CreateProcess.

finally clause destruction
AccessError(3203) (or whatever the error is) You'll get a skeleton of the description associated with the error. (For the error code above, The person that brought this to my attn is trying to locate information based on the code itself and, as usual, has received nothing but cryptic info that is not answering

error codes
Only cryptic info is the following row: "STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x805B6EE1, 0xF5E89C00, 0x00000000)" Also, after rebooting, winxp tells me with a popup window Anyone with a clue what those error codes means and what should be done ??? Feedback here or to spa...@casaschi.net appreciated (before I move to

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3) abort the program with an error message. Which usually has meaning to the programmer (eg very cryptic) or bears few to no details about what happened :) Most code uses a combination. However, most 'faulty' code that i have seen is not because the code itself was faulty at the grass-roots level, but because the

Install error with Quickcam
... on self-hacked PDF files, Acrobat Reader 3.0.1 and Exchange 3.0.1 sometimes return cryptic error messages like "There was an error reading this document. There was a problem reading Is there any list what these error codes mean or do you recommend any better parser (batch-)checking for PDF well-formedness ?

SBS backup failing - error code 0x800710d8
Jos van der Hulst hul...@wxs.nl microsoft public sqlserver datawarehouse When running a DTS package as an object in VB I get very cryptic messages from the error events. For instance -2147008507 should explain that I am using the Is there a way to get a listing of all error codes? Thank you for tour attention Jos.

Exceptions vs Error codes
Doing that 50 times only to find at each one there is an error and the only hint to where the error lies is in the cryptic explanation or lack of explanation somewhere Since it is most common, why isn't it an error 100? Who cares, as these are Maggot$oft error codes. UNIX gives better messages that make sense.

Exchange and tools error listings?
PicLan error codes are negative "short"s, so this would be -14. -14 is "port is unavailable" which indicates that Accuterm tried to open a specific port on the The setup gives a lot of cryptic "You must do" steps that are far from complete or intuitive. If you really want to start fresh, you can always: a) Boot

Retrieving file attributes to SAS ModuleN/C
EDTECH Editor-Gaynor edad...@mail.h-net.msu.edu bit listserv edtech From: Gary Zak <g...@pacificcoast.net> This one is pretty good, although most Mac error codes are fairly cryptic and often don't really explain what went wrong. http://www.jemz.com/mack/MacErr.html

Cryptic Error Code!
216 | $D8 | ONERR Flag (POKE 216,0 cancels ONERR; en norm errs) 218-219 | $DA-$DB | Line# of ONERR Error 222 | $DE | Error Code (FP) 224-225 | $E0-$E1 | Horizontal Coordinate of ..... The monitor has a lot of commands and the syntax is rather cryptic. Everything is entered and displayed in hexadecimal (base 16).

Foamy Makes us /Nervous/
Without one I get a very cryptic error, without any explicit mention of Access violation. Not even XP's application compatibility mode can change this...it crashes on the exact same line of code: mov dword ptr [eax],0 Even reading from a pointer outside a program's allocated area results in an Access Violation.

Interbase Error Codes
JSMadsen jsmad...@id4usa.net dk snak vittigheder Imagine if instead of cryptic, geeky text strings, your computer produced error messages in Haiku...they would read like these: A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. The Web site you seek cannot be located, but endless others exist Chaos

Ideas on user-friendly Function returns for UDF?
ERROR MESSAGES. The next time Windows 98 or Windows ME delivers one of those cryptic error messages, get thee to the Error Message Resource Center at If you'd like to automate the process and view an explanation of error codes as they inevitably occur, a free program, MS Windows Error Messages,

Error codes?
I've been having the same kind of trouble... in fact... just now when I wrote this I got the same exception, but with error code 0006. It is XXXX annoying, but I guess I can't do anything about it unless I throw Win95 to Heklafjell, or something. While I, too, am not 100% thrilled with Windows 95, it appears to not

Mac Plus Sad Mac error codes
(2)(n) - Cryptic error codes seen by users when a Windows system crashes. "C#" - (1)(n) - Microsoft's proprietary answer to Sun's truly cross-platform Java language. However, C# is only effective when used on Microsoft 'platforms'. (See "platform" and "cross-platform"). "Clippy" - (1)(n) - Microsoft's attempt to

Cryptic error on install please help
If this proves too disconcerting, I could turn off warnings and verbose errors, and display cryptic UNIX error codes. Once a post 16.0 release s made, this bug, I think, can be closed. manoj -- "Knowing when to optimize is as important as knowing how." Tom Neff Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org>

is VMS really easy to use?
I don't have to add new case clauses, like when HP realizes a bunch of error codes are off by one, I don't have to write a 70-clause case statement, In the case of off It just does: x * hex('10000') + 192 I don't have to reverse engineer anything, and my users don't see cryptic messages like, "Paserr 46006464.

C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)
I directed the guy to the HLA stdlib code, but honestly, I find it fairly cryptic... you're doing *what* to my stack? With the "exception" way of doing things, you _CAN_ just call things and not bother to check "error codes" in return (or, at least, you could _IF_ all the software you were using was written to

error codes 2 and 3
... error code associated with the original event that can cause an Delete/edit/post error event to fire on a TIBDataset? While the EDatabase error message is useful, it is fairly cryptic to the user, and an error code would help me identify the event better and i could replace the message with my own cherz al.

15 Questions to ask Microsoft
They are the same error codes you'll sometimes see in Event Viewer, or in various Windows logs like Setupapi.log for instance. I notice that some drivers can be readily converted to components and others tend to generate cryptic FBA installer errors. Is it possible to get a list of the errors that FBA is likely