Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Need GS HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! Message-ID: <34319@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 25 Aug 89 19:04:39 GMT References: Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 33 In article js7@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Jackson) writes: >Does anyone have a list of all Apple GS errors? I'm getting errors >like "$0911" and "Tool Error $004A". [...] (Whoops--forgot to answer part of that in my last note.) Error $004A isn't really a toolbox error (the program that displayed that message was being a little lazy). From ProDOS and GS/OS, error $4A is "version error" or "bad file format"--the idea is that the version of the OS you're running thinks the file you're trying to read on disk was created by a later version of the OS, so it can't read it. This sounds a bit fishy to me, since I don't think that feature has ever been used for its originally-intended purpose. Possibly the file's directory entry on disk has gotten mucked up. Or possibly, IF you were using ProDOS 8 (earlier than 1.8) or ProDOS 16 (not GS/OS) at the time, it was complaining because you tried to get at a directory that had lower-case letters in its real name. (The "version" bits for files and directories were redefined as indicating the case of the characters in the name. For files they were never used anyway, but for directories, they were. See GS/OS Technical Note #8.) What were you doing when you got error $004A, and what software and OS versions were you using? --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.