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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Runtime error
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.045339.12979@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1jn641INN8te@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:53:39 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <1jn641INN8te@golem.wcc.govt.nz> stevens_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >I have a program which was written in Pascal, and I think using Turbo Pascal,
- >which keeps giving a runtime error 005 could someone please tell me what this
- >is.
-
- Besides RTFM you can use the Turbo Pascal IDE help to get the
- meaning of runtime errors. Furthermore you can get the errors in a
- more verbal way run-time by including the error unit from the TSPAS
- TPU collection.
-
- >E-Mail replies please as I dont subscribe to this Newsgroup.
-
- I emailed this information to the poser of the question, but posted
- the actual answer because orthers might be interested in the answers
- given in comp.lang.pascal.
-
- -Subject: Asking for emailed news replies
- -From: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq31.zip Frequently Asked Questions
- -Date: Sat 19 Dec 00:00:02 1992
-
- 3. *****
- Q: Why "(Please) reply by email, I don't usually read this group"
- (sometimes a demand rather than a question) gets flamed?
-
- A: First please note that what I say below is not intended as flame
- any individual poster, but as a general analysis of requests to
- email the replies because one does not read a newsgroup.
- The problem is that telling people to email because one does not
- follow a newsgroup basically is an impolite way of formulating such
- a request. If one is interested enough to post to a group, one
- should also be prepared to follow up the group. If one asks others
- for favors, it is only fair to be prepared to reciprocate.
- Intended or not, the attitude this (email-I-don't-read) decree
- easily conveys is "I don't usually care for this wimpy group of
- yours, but this time you are allowed to be of service to my exalted
- person". What one should do, if following the group is genuinely
- problematic (for cost or other reasons), is to offer to make a
- summary of the replies. The liturgy often used for this is "Please
- reply by email. If there is sufficient interest, I'll summarize".
- (This alternative is often advocated also because it is expected to
- cut down the traffic). But make it genuine. Not just a lip service.
- You might even state why following a group is problematic for you,
- but this is up to you.
- The problem with asking emailed replies is that unless one offers
- to summarize, or has an extremely specialized subject, the request
- will seem selfish. This is because other users may be interested in
- seeing the potentially useful replies. On the other hand if everyone
- posts an answer, the newsgroup will be swamped for awhile. This
- sometimes happens with common questions where almost everyone knows
- the answer. (An example: How does one bypass pressing Y for del *.*
- elicited an enormous number of almost identical reply postings in
- February 1992). It is not always easy to strike a balance.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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