There are 1 or 2 errors run time (such as this one) and some compiler errors, that often come up & get answered by the developers... would it be worth expanding the error messages eg in v11 in these cases to give 'hints' on a new line eg in this case 'hint: filemode may be set to read/write, try filemode=0' or whatever... Is there a limit on the error message length?

Just an idea.... J

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I think this would soon make the hints totally unusable, since there would be a lot of hints and most would be irrelevant (e.g. it's quite possible that the programmer intends to open the file as read/write).

Is there a limit on the error message length?

Not really (there is one, but it can be changed by simply chamging a constant)

Jonas