Re: Error message

[<neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

>From an older source, the original twain.h from the Twain Working Group:
http://www.twain.org/devfiles/twain.h
and in the current standard:
http://www.twain.org/docs/TWAIN19.pdf

These documents refer to "unknown causes" and constitute a good example of
the need for separating the name of the internal error condition from
the message displayed to our ever-hapless J. Random User. 


Jan Cohen reported:
> Curious myself, I did a little research of my (keywords: MSG_OPENDS TWRC_FAILURE bummer) and actually came up with what could be the source code that generates that error message.  It's associated with an older Freeware TWAIN driver that could still be in use today.  
> Have a look at http://tinyurl.com/2fv8bu .  
> By the way, per that code, a "bummer" is defined as follows:
> BUMMER = TWCC_BUMMER; {/ * Failure due to unknown causes * / }jan cohen
> www.theshininglamp.com
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "neilson -at- windstream -dot- net" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
> To: "Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)" <diane_evans -at- merck -dot- com>; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 2:26:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Error message
> I googled for this one and found that many people have gotten the
> error and asked on their various "help me!" blogs about it in English,
> French, Dutch, German and Danish. None seems to have received an answer
> more helpful than we have seen already. It's like, "You're screwed."
> The most amusing aspect is that so many people asked why that particular
> phrase was used, and no one has answered that question, instead saying
> something more like, "Oh, I've seen that, too. I did such-and-such
> and then everything was ok." Someone thought it could be a typo for
> "buffer error". From what I saw, though, most bloggers got no answer at
> all.
> Diane Evans asks,
>  
> > I have an HP All-in-one printer/scanner at home.  I don't use it often,
> > but had a reason to do some scanning last night.  For whatever reason, I
> > couldn't get the scanner to work (although the printer is just fine).  I
> > received the error message: "Unable to open xxx file.  Bummer error."
> > 
> > Bummer error?????????  What is that about??????
> 
> 
> 
> 

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