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From: jeremy@Apple.COM (Jeremy Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: radio control with Hypercard
Keywords: Radio, Unexpected error
Message-ID: <35933@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 01:08:11 GMT
References: <752@prles2.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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hogenes@cstw32.prl.philips.nl (Geert Hogen Esch) writes:
>I was working on a stack which I left at some stage and which
>I could not get into anymore. When I try to open the stack,
>the following message is printed after two 'boings':
>	Unexpected error 5455
>with button Sorry which when pushed makes me quit Hypercard.
>Does anyone know what 5455 means? It is a puzzle to me.

The following answer was extracted from the Q&A stack, which is avaliable via
ftp from apple.com in the directory /usr/spool/ftp/pub/dts/mac/q+a.

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There is no published list of Hypercard's internal errors. These errors 
indicate an internal Hypercard error, not a problem with a script. Three 
possible causes are:

  * Hypercard doesn't have enough memory.
  * An XCMD or XFCN has corrupted Hypercard's environment.
  * The stack is corrupted.

If you repeatedly get Hypercard errors and you are sure none of the 
above conditions are causing it, report it to Mac DTS.

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It sounds as if your stack is corrupted.  You might try using the "Recover"
stack from Mac DTS, which I will try to have put in the public ftp directory
by the end of the week or so.

-jeremy bjornsten 
 jeremy@apple.com