Is Binfile broken?

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2014, at 09:13 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> To diagnose problems with file access (and many other circumstances
>> where error-checking is useful), check the result after attempting
>> the action.  With file access it can be very help to include a call
>> to sysError there, so you can see what the OS is complaining about,
>> .e.g:
>> 
>>   open file theDestFile for binary write
>>   if the result is not empty then
>>      answer the result &"("& sysError() &")"
>>   end if
> 
> Thanks Richard. I get “Can’t open that file.” in the result for the
> write. Very informative. ;-)
> 
> Now I have to figure out *why* it can’t open that file.

What was the OS error number returned from sysError()?

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