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23 What does system error xxx mean? (Macintosh system software)




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This article is from the Macintosh system software FAQ, by Elliotte Harold elharo@shock.njit.edu with numerous contributions by others.

23 What does system error xxx mean? (Macintosh system software)

Typically it means nothing at all of any use to the end user.
Your time is much more productively spent trying to figure out what
actions in which application caused the crash so that you can avoid
them in the future rather than deciphering system error numbers.
After all, knowing that Error 16 means a math coprocessor is not
installed doesn't help you much in fixing the problem. Knowing that
this happens in QuarkXPress 3.0 every time you try to link two text
boxes on a master page when copies of those text boxes already
contain text does. (And in this case the error message isn't even
accurate.) If you really want to know what that number means, get

<URL:ftp://ftp.macfaq.com/pub/>

 

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