Error 57

[Paul a Reynolds]

Hi Guys,

Having issue with trying to open a upd port statement. It keeps throwing up an error 57. The operating system my program is running on is a minimized windows 98 system.

I know the code must be fine because it works until I add the file WS2_32.DLL which is needed by other applications.


hUdp = FREEFILE
UDP OPEN PORT %UPort AS hUdp TIMEOUT 60000
MsgBox(str$(err) ) + $crlf+str$(%UPort )
IF ERR Then Exit FUNCTION

regardless of the port I open i still get 57.

Any IDeas ?

Paul

[StanHelton]

My first thought was check the HOST file in the windows directory as suggested in the manual, but it doesn't relate directly to the problem you are having.

I don't really have any idea what's happening here, but I am interested in the answer, if anybody else has a good one.

Stan

[Chris Holbrook]

Works OK on mine (XP) with port 7. What was Windows 98 then, some sort of old operating system? ;-}

[Paul a Reynolds]

Its just the operating system that we use on the system that we sell. I hate it believe me.

but the solution is as follows.

Just place the application in its own DIR.
I think because its a cut down version of 98 (lots of files deleted by hand)
the application was running in a path dir, and thus trying to use files that were depending on other things.

seems silly to be but its working.

thanks foryour input.

Paul.