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I/O errors are often hard to see.  They appear a white text somewhere on your screen below wherever the cursor was positioned at the time of the error.  

They look a lot like Run-time Error messages except that the first line says I/O  Error xx,   PC=nnnn 

They are usually generated because some sort of input/output error.  This means that the system was trying to send something to or get something from a file or output device like a printer.

01 File does not exist.

Problem : The file name does not specify an existing file.

Solution : Make sure the PC is still connected to the network.

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02 File not open for input

Problem : You are trying to get data from a file that is not open.

Solution : Make sure the PC is still connected to the network..

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03 File not open for output

Problem : You are trying to send data to a file that is not open.

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04 File not open

Problem : You are trying to access a file that is not open.

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10 Error in numeric format.

Problem : The string read from a text file into a numeric variable does not conform to the proper numeric format.

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91 Seek beyond end-of-file.

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99 Unexpected end-of-file.

Problem : Physical end-of-file encountered before EOF-character (C trl-Z) when reading from a text file. 2) An attempt was made to read beyond end-of-file on a defined file. 

Something may be wrong with the file, or you may be trying to read past physical EOF.

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F0 Disk write error.

Problem : Disk full while attempting to expand a file. 

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F1 Directory is full.

Problem : You are trying to open new a file, and there is no more room in the disk directory.

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F2 File size overflow.

Problem : You are trying to Write a record beyond 65535 to a defined file.

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F3 Too many open files.

Problem : 

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FF File disappeared.

Problem : 

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