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Why Macers hate PCs
The problems I have been having have mostly had to do with creating a patch - OK, we have just been doing complete installs and haven't yet attempted any patches. cryptic error codes which have more often than not turned out to have nothing to do with what was actually wrong Error codes from what?

Brother MFC-890 and "PLS OPEN COVER"
Now I won't knock my head against the wall trying to figure out what the cryptic number means. Robin -----Original Message----- From: ToolBook Discussion List While I am on a roll, does anyone know what exactly those error codes mean. Something somewhere is generating that Error Code 397.

Where to find error codes
Erik Luijten luij...@lomond.physik.uni-mainz.de comp text pdf I (Erik Luijten) wrote: Does anybody out there recognize the following phenomenon: if I start the Acrobat Reader (3.0 for Linux), it "immediately" exits with: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. I found the cause of this problem: I had set PSRESOURCEPATH

assertion checking
But look in the help index for error codes --> I/O and you'll see it is not a Delphi error (they're 100 .. 107). In such a case, open the Win 32 SDK help error codes --> Error Codes (Win32 Programmer's Reference) --> Numerical Listing --> 17L ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE This seems a bit cryptic to me.

Acrobat Reader error codes
When things die, they die horribly, usually taking some part of the the OS in RAM with it, and with error messages, if it actually gives one, so terse, cryptic and uninformative that it makes MacOS's tendancy to use numerical error codes without explaination look like highly detailed error logs by comparison.

The sdk service is either not running or not yet initialized
The error codes are in Chp 6. Alistair Clethero wrote: Folks, Does anybody know/is it possible to gain access to the interbase 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

Released code in WinXP ?
Can someone please help me to define the error code: 800ff05f I've searched Google msdn and the newsgroups and I can't seem to locate this error code. Also what does 1|0|||||0|0||| mean? Is it me or are these codes cryptic and poorly documented? Thank you for any help you can offer :).

Search mail message for text strings
DaffyDŽ daf...@woohoo.com microsoft public windows inetexplorer ie55 browser These are memory addresses, telling you in very cryptic code the locations of these errors. Actually, it is more important to post the exact text of the error messages, which tells what kind of error occurred and where it happened.

TR 5 Re: BA/2
Well, with a language that doesn't do bounds checking, you aren't going to get a nice obvious error message like "buffer overflow, you idiot!" Instead you're going to get either a possibly-cryptic error message/code from the OS telling you the program tried to access memory it didn't own (well, with a reasonably

Correct usage of "Image" ???
Short term, you can store the returned value in a variable, use a break point or dialog box to let you see it, and then Tools->Error Lookup to get a message associated with the code. Long term, you can use FormatMessage to get the message more directly. The error codes and messages can be a bit cryptic,

Microsoft-English dictionary
It's incorrect to assume much about client code using this function, what it can and can't do, and how it might handle errors. Wipes forehead - just think of the Error Message One possible response to this is that I should return an error code rather than raise an exception on predictable failure like network

"System has recovered from a serious error"
Aloke Prasad aprasad...@columbus.rr.invalid microsoft public windowsmedia player Are these described somewhere on MSKB? -- Aloke ---- to reply by e-mail remove 123 and change invalid to com.

What's the Perl script for translating error codes?
Sorry - I don't know what that error is - it's not one of the usual NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) Error codes. For more info, see: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html Network News HTH (Hope That (or This) Helps) -) -- pmj <--- & those are just my initials - there's no cryptic meaning behind them!!! -)

ISDN Busy Signals?
Jed Clear cl...@alum.mit.edu alt comp periphs mainboard abit Drat, you pre-empted posts along the lines of "order the new Windows 2000 Error Code Generator". Anyway, that isn't an error code -Jed Second Phase wrote: Hi all, And I don't mean getting the errors :-) but I like to now what these cryptic codes mean.

Problem adding items to a ListBox
I'm finally to a point where I can compile the program and see how it looks, but I keep get some cryptic error that I don't understand. Maybe you all can help me out here. Based on the error message, I'd guess you left the parentheses off of the code that was supposed to call the function.

Crusader: No Regret buggy?
Although the beep codes are generated by the bios, you need a CPU to operate the bios. Try turning on the computer with no CPU in the socket. .... What the error message is depends entirely on the BIOS, and can be anything from the rather clear "No boot device available" to the very cryptic "NO ROM BASIC - SYSTEM

Unicode from resource dlls under Win9x
Gary Polando gpola...@marcoa.com comp sys mac system Locate a little utility called Apple Error Codes '98. Should answer most of your questions. What do the cryptic error messages mean, when starting a program. Particular 2, 3, 102? For example. I have MacOS 8.1, and installed Netscape Communicator 4.04,

Debug friendly FBA?
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, and they do not come close to matching or describing this error.

GPO failing to apply
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 support...and no one wins. Also, I think there are too many cases where info or error message explains to the user exactly what to do, where instead the program could

wshshell.run and err handling
Dmitri Gavrilov [MSFT] dmit...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windows server active_directory There are several error codes here. How can I figure out that this error was a JET_errKeyDuplicate and not a (very cryptic) "Server is busy" error message? Which parameters tell you that and where are they