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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: What is error -5016?
- Message-ID: <f4Tl03xo821300@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:09:16 GMT
- References: <73gg03Cw81AJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Sep14.013122.19007@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- cwhi2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Craig Dean Whitmore ) writes:
-
- }This -5016 problem is a special error that programmers introduced to indicate
- }that the 680x0 was going into superviser mode and if the person didn't turn
- }the MAC off in the next five years that there MMU would cease to function.
-
- Well, shucks, I did this on a PB100. I didn't think it had an MMU.
-
- }I don't know why you should get that error - the only way that this error
- }came up was when programmers did a call to the operating system to open a
- }screen with dimensions of 244 x 199 and to turn on file sharing.
-
- Wow, you sure must be right, 'cause that's EXACTLY what I did just before
- the call to ResolveAlias! So if I make the screen 244 x 198 it should
- work, right?
-
- }- but that
- }didn't work all the time. If this thing happens again you should in my
- }opinion sue macintosh for releasing macintosh computer without getting all
- }there bugs out of their machines.
-
- Ok, are you a lawyer? Go ahead and start the suit for me, we can talk
- about your fee later, after you've won the 27.3 million dollars for me.
-
- --James Preston
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