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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bummers
Keywords: LSP 2.0,i/o errors
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Date: 10 Jul 90 21:48:54 GMT
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In article <15075@thorin.cs.unc.edu> denelsbe@pi.cs.unc.edu (Kevin Denelsbeck) writes:
>Help!  I'm TAing a summer course in advanced programming and the students
>are using Lightspeed Pascal (2.0 and up).  One student, for some reason,
>consistently gets a "-36 I/O Error (Bummers)" (or something like that).

	-36 is an unspecified I/O error. The "Bummer" comment was added by
Pete Maruhnic, one of the original authors of Quicksilver/Lightspeed/THINK 
Pascal.
	
	If you're running off floppies, one of the floppies may have gone bad;
that's the typical etiology behind a -36.

R.


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