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From: martyp@pnet02.gryphon.com (Martin Peckham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ProDOS error
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Date: 15 Nov 89 02:40:20 GMT
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Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:
>Okay, just checking out a new (well, new to my archive) version of Zlink
>and trying to download more utilities from a new BBS (two birds with one
>stone)...
> 
>Anyway, I keep getting ProDOS error $56.  This is not defined in
>Michael Fischer's ][gs tech. reference book.  What does this error
>mean and how can it be gotten around.  I disable my ProDOS 8 write
>protect CDA, but I can't save any files (including the buffer) to
>disk.  Dave Whitney, what do you think?
> 
According to some old doc's of mine, error $56 is "Bad Buffer Address". This
usually means that a file is being loaded into an area of memory that is
already being used or ProDOS thinks it is already allocated to some other
file. Hope this helps.


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