Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!neals From: neals@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Neal Sedell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Great Moments In Error Messages -- Microsoft C 5.1 Message-ID: <3340@tekigm2.TEK.COM> Date: 8 Aug 88 20:57:43 GMT References: <335@optilink.UUCP> <769@euraiv1.UUCP> Reply-To: neals@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Neal Sedell) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 31 In article <769@euraiv1.UUCP> evas@euraiv1.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen) writes: >in article <335@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) says: >> I was trying to reduce memory requirements, so I cut BUFFERS and FILES >> in CONFIG.SYS back to 10, and tried to recompile. The compiler started >> to give me a message which is not in the 5.0, or the 5.1 update: >> >> C1015: >> >> Yup! That's it! No message -- just a number. > >This is perfectly sensible behaviour; MSC stores it's error messages >in files named C1.ERR, C23.ERR and CL.ERR. So, to display the message Yes, it's prefectly sensible if you're complier doesn't have enough sense to close the files that it opened. Seems like the first thing it would do would be to close all the opened files... x x x x x x x x x x x x x -- Neal Sedell