Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!nerm
From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System error 99?
Message-ID: <42808@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:06:05 GMT
References: <955.2695f83f@waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <955.2695f83f@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>I've been getting a system error 99 occasionally when I boot up.
>Can anybody tells me what this means? It happens after MacsBug
>is loaded, but before my INIT icons start their march across the
>screen, so perhaps it's nothing to do with them.
>

  System Error 99 means that the System couldn't load a patch (be it 'PTCH' or
'ptch') at startup.  Why it only happens to you occasionally is rather odd.
Chances are, your System file is a little flakey, and you should probably
re-install sometime in the near future...

  -- Dean Yu
     Summer Meanie

  "I'm having trouble convincing Apple in general that I'm actually here, so
   don't take this as something Apple said."