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From: FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: name_$not_found status code
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Date: 4 May 89 13:37:00 GMT
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I tried to open a mailbox file that doesn't exist today, and received
the status code = 0x800e0007
When I do an error_$print on this status code, I get the error
name not found from (OS/naming server). Therefore, I tried to
put in a conditional like this:

      if (status.all == name_$not found) {
            etc.

However, the name_$not_found status code in /sys/ins/name.ins.c
is different by one bit. Instead of being 0x800e0007, it's
0x000e0007, and I don't know why. Obviously, I can kludge my
way around this, but has anyone else noticed it?

I did an fpat (grep) on all of the /sys/ins/?*.c files as well as
the .pas files, and the status code is not defined anywhere.
Anyone know anything about this? Does the error handler ignore
that first bit or something?

Thanks,
Scott Ferguson
ferguson@erevax.bitnet
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