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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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               Eric Weidl    e-weidl@uchicago.edu
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