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sonic YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 46	error message acronyms/abbreviations Oct 1st, 2009, 8:12am   In the troubleshooting section it would be nice to see a list of error messages with likely explanations. In particular, explanations of the items listed after 'expected'. Expected DOT - what is DOT? etc.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: error message acronyms/abbreviations Reply #1 - Oct 1st, 2009, 9:37am   I am not sure of want you are talking about. In the Troubleshooting page, I cannot find DOT and Expected only once.

Cedric God Member Offline Posts: 1838	Re: error message acronyms/abbreviations Reply #2 - Oct 1st, 2009, 9:58am   i guess thats the problem he is talking about. he wants a better description of the errors processing prints cause they are sometimes cryptical and you cant figure out what the actual problem is
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sonic YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 46	Re: error message acronyms/abbreviations Reply #3 - Oct 1st, 2009, 10:55am   yes, Cedric - precisely

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: error message acronyms/abbreviations Reply #4 - Oct 1st, 2009, 11:41am   Aah, I missed the point! I suppose you talk about Processing error messages. Note that some diagnostics (error messages) are not accurate, so being too precise might be misleading... :-P But seriously, I agree.

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: error message acronyms/abbreviations Reply #5 - Oct 19th, 2009, 10:18am   Agreed. This is valuable. There's a short description of them in Shiffman's book as an appendix. We're working on a new wiki, this is an ideal category for that.