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- From: ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Network error with FoxBASE+/Mac
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.141525.17420@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:15:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.205210.29904@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Reply-To: ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Academic and Public Computing
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- In article <1992Aug19.205210.29904@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> folse@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUC (Mark Folse) writes:
- >Can anyone tell me why the following line returns the error "HFS error" with
- >an error number of "-50":
-
- Which is "error in user parameter list". In other words, the parameters to
- a File Manager call are bogus, ie. you are specifying a volume which does
- not exist.
-
- >SET DEFAULT TO "MacKeegan:FoxVOTE"
-
- If FoxVOTE is a folder, it would be better to indicate that:
- SET DEFAULT TO "MacKeegan:FoxVOTE:"
-
- >USE MacKeegan->FoxVOTE->bc_voter.dbf INDEX Mackeegan->FoxVOTE->bc_precinc.dbf
- Am I missing something here? I've never seen a path use the '->' symbol.
- Apparently Fox is passing it on to the File Manager, who responds with the
- -50 error. Try:
- USE MacKeegan:FoxVOTE:bc_voter.dbf
-
- >I hope to go multi-user with my application, but if it can't communicate
- >over the Appletalk Network I guess I can save $399 and not buy the
- >multi-user version.
-
- Please let me know if using '->' in a path name normally works, because I
- don't think it should. I think the reason it's choking is that you're
- feeding it garbage.
-
- Eric
-
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