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From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message
Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh
Message-ID: <1991May09.090352.17859@anomaly.sbs.com>
Date: 9 May 91 09:03:52 GMT
References: <1991May7.235644.28744@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI  02917
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mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mike Hovan) writes:


>	Anybody know what the following error means:

>	 (0)  Unrecoverable error 668 : Eval Stack Fault
>	run-time error R6001
>	-  null pointer assignment


Out of memory error. I get the same thing when I attempt to load an
application with less than 425k. >425k it will run without a hitch.
I don't know if that's what it really means, but that's the symptom
and the cure for the same application I'm working on here.


Here is a better one for you...

Sometimes, completely random, after I linkedit my application and start
it, I will get halfway thru one screen:

"Unrecoverable error 415: Cannot load overlay file '*'"

(the '*' is actually a little smiley face in a circle.)

A call to Nantucket's brilliant technical support yielded

Nantucket: "Oh, it must be a bug in your program"

I asked:

1. "How? Since I don't have an overlay file, just one .EXE"

2. "If I make a small change to an unrelated module, and re-linkedit
    the application, this error goes away."

Nantucket: "Well, nobody else has reported this error, it must be your
           application."


>	Doesn't look good, I know a MSC error when I see one.  You know
>this is the 3rd revision of the Clipper product I have worked with  
>(S87, 5.0, 5.01) in the last 3 years, and as far as I am concerned this
>thing is still in alpha test mode.  


No shit. I'm really pissed off at these assholes. I've got a product which
is supposed to be released to end users at the end of June, and these
dipshits can't even get the link editor to work correct.

Then, when I call with a problem, I get shit like "oh, nobody else has
reported that problem" and "it must be your program." Bullshit. The same
code, linkedited a second time, with the same exact keystrokes, with run
without a hitch. 

If they always used that "nobody else has reported this problem" logic,
their goddamn software would never have a bug in it!

MD
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