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DHTML Error Message
Further, the returned mail gets a cryptic error code "555 No, Thank you." that does not reveal the reason for rejection. The error code 555 is not part of the network standard set of error codes that I am familiar with. Error codes in the 500 series are considered "permanent" failures, and the reason for bouncing

Stopping unwanted "spam filtering" by an ISP
Then, don't perpetuate the use of cryptic arcane error codes. They made sense in the early days of computing when memory and disk space were at a premium. They stopped making sense a long time ago! -- Regards, Tushar Mehta www.tushar-mehta.com Microsoft MVP -- Excel -- In

FAQ - Part_4
When the install window opens it begins to install the files, then the following 2 messages appear: 1632: /UM <url to msi package> 1607: Unable To Install InstallShield Scripting Package I'm afraid this is a cryptic error message from the Microsoft Installer. A whole bunch of error codes is listed here:

Cryptic error message
2F TRAPV (Overflow) 07 The following is a list of the specific error codes and a short comment about their meaning. The descriptions are a slightly edited version of the exec/alerts file, so they are very cryptic. ExecLib 01000000 ExcptVect 81000001 CPU trap vector checksum BaseChkSum 81000002 ExecBase checksum

Trouble installing After Shot
Mike Williams [MVP] mi...@Nospam.mvps.org microsoft public windowsmedia player Aloke Prasad wrote: Are these described somewhere on MSKB? There's a More Information button on the error dialog that takes you to a description and link to "more information".

Voodoo5 5500l: A Freaking Nightmare....
HTH Lee. Randy Hislop <rhis...@eba.ca> wrote in message news:O1capJ0Z$GA.228@cppssbbsa02.microsoft.com... Anyone have any idea what this means? Event ID: 2510 Source: Server Type: Error Category: None Description: The server service was unable to map error code 1797. Randy.

Vines 3.0 Client -more
After a full *day* of troubleshooting the cryptic "error 41 in finder" messages (that only came up every other boot or so? For a system that's supposed to be the pinnacle of user-friendliness, numeric error codes are a horrible idea. This is probably a hold-over from when the OS had to fit in a few kilobytes.

"Database" term ok for plain files?
But these are not "error codes" in the sense of a numeric value representing an error. Most errors in GPMC should be accompanied by text that clearly explains what happened, so you shouldn't normally have the problem with cryptic errors in the event log that you often see when processing of policy fails on a client

Bad escape codes on 9000/720?
I look up the error and print the message. 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, I don't have to reverse engineer anything, and my users don't see cryptic messages like, "Paserr 46006464.

Error Codes
Most VMS software use license packs, which are not simply cryptic strings of printable characters. They are structured in format and operated on with a standard tool (LMF). While internally Unix returns numeric error codes I have never seen a program that returned them in that format to the user.

Messages and protocol crash on svn log with multiple targets
However, starting on the second floor, I started getting crashes, in which I get booted back to DOS with some cryptic error code -- the screen would say "No pity, no mercy, no regret", and then spew out half a screenful of error code. It crashes even more often on subsequent floors of the first level.

Newbie: creating directory - not
JCL has a "unique" flavour; it is utterly unlike normal programming languages and is archane, cryptic, obscure, complex and rude. .... names and error codes (was: Humorous and/or Interesting Opcodes) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#110 OS/360 names and error codes (was: Humorous and/or Interesting Opcodes)

Cryptic Error Code!
Andreas Kyriacou andrik...@zetnet.co.uk comp lang pascal delphi misc The message <O9P8ol7h$GA.256@cpmsnbbsa04> from "Bob Runyan" <runy...@email.msn.com> contains these words: I *sometimes* get the message: “Win32 error. Code 87. The parameter is incorrect” from my Delphi application when trying to load a very large

error 1 & 11 problems!!!!!!
Bert Huijben \(TCG\) b.huij...@competence.biz Subversion-development Hi, While trying some code around the log api I found the following error descriptions on 200 OK (http://svn.collab.net) This last one does not even show there was an error at the subversion level and gives an even more cryptic error than 1.4.

Error using c=nl in ADAM
After digging through some back issues of my favorite magazines, I came across only two articles which mentioned what the cryptic Sad Mac error codes meant. I have summarized the information from the two articles (my thanks to the authors, whoever you are) and included a list of what some of the codes mean.

is this an explorer error?
gmail.com> wrote: Because "Error -36" is so clear. what's an error -36? LOL! Its a Mac error. According to the ad Mac error codess are not cryptic like Windows error codes are (even though Windows error codes tell you the file involved while Mac error codes do not). I guess you just must be denser if you can't tell

Cryptic error message using RuleFit
As cryptic as the older error numbers are, this site doesn't do any better than anybody else as far as really explaining them. But it's a good resource for looking some up. I think you may be able to reduce those errors by allocating more memory to the programs in question -- and, as always, keep your disk properly

Student questions
RichS androm...@mindspring.com microsoft public inetserver iis Hello, My IIS will not start, and gives the error, "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740" when I try to start it through the administration snap-in. Can anything possibly be more cryptic? I have looked through the IIS error codes listed in the SDK docs,

Bad escape codes on 9000/720?
That's not 'handling' the error at all! It's just *reporting* the error. The fact that a caller function handles the the error code returned by a function is handling The syntax is atrocious and cryptic and error messages are extremly cryptic due to the teplatization. "It's a fair cop, but society's to blame.

Exceptions vs Error codes
For one thing, I have had to clean up code where the developer passes the cryptic exception message up to the user, who then has to call for tech If it hadn;t been cryptic then perhaps tech support wouldn't have been called. Also, I think there are too many cases where info or error message explains to the user