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Re: nager:sprites22 - What causes it?

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From: Tom Hughes
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <4pe52p$15v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Reuben Thomas (rrt1001@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:

> In article <bab434db46@tonyh.tcp.co.uk>,
> Tony Houghton  <tonyh@tcp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >In article <adh1003.169.000E2782@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> >          adh1003@hermes.cam.ac.uk (Andrew Hodgkinson) wrote:
> >
> >> It is a bug in all versions of the DrawFile module.
> >
> >I think I've had it in other Toolbox modules than Drawfile. A
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I've even had it with the Freenet SLIPdriver, when I tried to use the 
> (documented) -m option which doesn't actually exist. I spent a while 
> trying to find the renegade version of DrawFile before I discovered the 
> true cause of the problem.

As Alan has already tried to tell you, it's a RISC OS bug which
affects the execution of commands in obey files. Any error message
generated by a command in an obey file can, under the right
circumstances get mangled into this error (pre 3.6 anyway).

Tom

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Subject: Re: nager:sprites22 - What causes it?
Date: 1996/06/09
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