On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I am sure, at least for NT/W2K. Sorry, there's no such command in
> 9x/ME.
>
> However, the error message is:
>
> $ net helpmsg 127
>
> The specified procedure could not be found.
>
For general windows 32, you can use the attached trivial piece of code
that will give you the error message when given the error code.
$ gcc -o win32-error win32-error.c
$ ./win32-error 127
./win32-error.exe (Error 127): The specified procedure could not be found.
Regards,
Mumit
/*
* win32-errmsg: Translate win32 error codes to text messages.
*
* Usage: win32-errmsg [error-code [error-code ...]]
*
*/
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
void
format_error (char *msg, int msglen, int errnum)
{
if (FormatMessage (FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM
| FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
NULL,
errnum,
MAKELANGID (LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
(LPTSTR) msg,
msglen,
NULL))
{
msg [strlen (msg) - 2] = '\0';
}
else
{
sprintf (msg, "Win32 error %d", errnum);
}
}
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
{
int errnum = atoi (argv[i]);
char msg[256];
sprintf (msg, "%s (Error %d): ", argv[0], errnum);
format_error (msg + strlen (msg), sizeof (msg) - strlen (msg), errnum);
puts (msg);
}
return 0;
}
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