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From: Michael Brown <brown_mi@decuserve.org>
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Subject: Re: C Error Number to Symbol
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:06:04 +1100
Organization: House Harris Software
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On 20/3/25 05:20, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/19/2025 12:08 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 3/19/25 9:29 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
>>> On 20/3/25 00:38, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>> I _think_ what he wants is some kind of translation table between errno
>>>> values and VMS condition codes.  For example, starting with errno of
>>>> ESRCH and getting to RMS$_RNF or vice versa.  I'm not aware of any such
>>>> table, and if there were, it wouldn't be a one-to-one  mapping.
>>>
>>> yes if I get a return status of 98994 I would like to be able to look 
>>> it up and get "RMS$_RNF" to output that in my error handling routine.
>>
>> No, I guessed wrong.  You are not dealing with errno at all but rather
>> VMS condition code to message lookup, which, as you've now discovered,
>> has already been fully answered.
> 
> I was starting to think that it was about translating from
> numeric value to symbolic name, which is a weird one.
> 
> $ run moremsgfun
> 98962 = RMS$_FNF
> 
> Arne
> 

This is exactly what I intended with the original post, so this pas 
source is very interesting to me.

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