Re: Error Question (gsos $110b)

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <45rlhq$n7q@styx.uwa.edu.au>,
Joseph Turner <jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>   Hi I have been downloading some file here and there from the net to 
> use, but have come across the error message(with the number )$110b.

Error $110B means "Load segment is foreign".  This probably means that
the file is damaged in some way.

The most likely cause: you have downloaded a copy of GSHK (the IIgs
version of ShrinkIt) that was encoded with BinSCII, and have decoded
it using GSCII+.  GSCII+ has a bug when decoding BinSCII files: it
rounds the file size up to the next multiple of 48 bytes.  This
isn't a problem for most file types, but GS/OS applications must have
the length exactly right, or the IIgs System Loader thinks there is a
damaged segment on the end of the file and will not let you load it.

> Now I have 4megs ram, rom1, system4 disk so I suspect that the error
> is due to the fact that my system is to old.

If it is GSHK, then your system is definitely too old.  GSHK is a
self-extracting archive, and to extract it (or to use GSHK once it is
extracted) you need System 5.0.4 or later.

>    Oh and just something else strange that has happened is that when I 
> boot my 2GS with the Printer on I get a $682 error(which I read earliar 
> in comp.sys.apple2 was due to some memory problem. But this error does 
> not appear at all when the printer is turned off. The printer is connectd 
> to a parallel card in slot one. This problem doesn't bother me much cause 
> I just don't turn the printer on until I have the computer going, but it 
> sure is an interesting one.

It could be a power or noise problem, causing memory corruption only
while the printer is on.  It might also be something like a buggy
driver being loaded at startup time which is trying to talk to the
printer, but only if it is online.


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