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From: macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Anyone seen Unexpected Error 5454?
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Date: 29 Mar 91 16:59:23 GMT
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Hi!
	We're using Hypercard 2.0 with system 6.0.7 to maintain a chemical
inventory. It has about 2000 cards and is a little bigger than 1 MB. Recently,
when trying to execute a print report we received the message: Unexpected error
5454, after which Hypercard quit. The same thing happened when I tried to
compact the stack. Fortunately, we had a backup of an earlier version of the
stack which works correctly, so no great loss. I'm wondering, though, if
anyone is familiar with this cryptic error message. There's no mention of it
in the big Hypercard 2.0 book I have. I also saw some funny behavior when
trying to compact the corrupt stack (after 3 tries it got 160 KB larger and
the free space grew from 5K to 16K). Could this be a disk-related error or is
it due to the large size of the stack? I'd appreciate any answers, which if
necessary I will summarize to the group. Thanks.

Kurtis MacFerrin	macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu