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#AMIG21

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#34616From: Dan ColeJun 7, 1990 10:16 PM
I downloaded a program-AMIG21-from this forum. When i click on the icon for the program i get an eror message which says "Error While Opening :Iconx : 205". What's wrong, how do I fix it. I realize that this is not your upload, but I sseem to have some sort of generic problem, not one specific tothe program.
#34636From: Betty Clay/SYSOPJun 8, 1990 5:13 PM
Error 205 means that the computer did not find the program associated with the icon. It could be that the icon's tooltypes or default tool are wrong. Have you clicked once on the icon, then selected INFO from the menus, and looked to see what they are? A misspelled name could do that – or not having the correct tool in the place where the program expects it. (I am assuming that you had unpacked the file, made an icon for the drawer, etc., and that your problem came when the drawer was open and you clicked the icon it its window.)
#34641From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPJun 8, 1990 8:04 PM
That sounds like someone goofed in creating the icon. What the error message means is that it couldn't open the program ":Iconx". This is probably because it couldn't find the file. Notice the colon in front. This means that it will look for Iconx in the root directory of whatever disk you put the program on. And Iconx is probably not there. On a typical Workbench 1.3 disk, IconX is located in the "c" directory, and thus the icon *should* be looking for "SYS:c/iconx", or better yet, "C:iconx". If you click on the icon once and choose Info from the Workbench menu, you'll get the icon's description and can change where it says ":Iconx" to "C:Iconx" and it should work fine.