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From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@nospam.mac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C Error Number to Symbol
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:08:42 -0500
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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.