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From: marvel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Howard P. Marvel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Error messages
Keywords: 54321
Message-ID: <15799@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 88 03:18:20 GMT
Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
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Could someone explain the following to me?  I am working on a short
and simple stack.  I want to delete a card.  After selecting delete
card from the edit menu, I get a dialog box that says unexpected error
54321 and a SORRY button.  Pressing the button exits hypercard.  I
have two questions and a comment.

1.  What is wrong and how do I fix it?
2.  Where are such bizarre and uninformative error messages
documented?

I tried hypercard some time ago, but gave up in response to similar
strange messages.  I would really like to write some instructional
stuff on the Mac, but the various packages I have tried are all buggy.
I really wonder about the Mac as the computer for the rest of us as it
makes me nostalgic for JCL. I thought nothing in the world could do
that, but at least you really follow Casey Stengel's advice and look
it up. Help.