Correction in the help - Multiple Customizable Levels of Error Treatment

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In the C6 help docs the page titled “Multiple Customizable Levels of Error Treatment” cites

The recognized severity EQUATEs are declared in ABERROR.INC. These severity levels and their default actions are:

Level:Benign no action, returns Level:Benign
Level:User displays message, returns Level:Benign or Level:Cancel
Level:Notify displays message, returns Level:Benign
Level:Fatal displays message, halts the program
Level:Program treated as Level:Fatal
Level:Cancel used to confirm no action taken by User
any other value treated as Level:Program

and in C11 it cites

Multiple Customizable Levels of Error Treatment
The recognized severity EQUATEs are declared in EQUATES.CLW. These severity levels and their default actions are:

Level:Benign (0) no action, returns Level:Benign
Level:User (1) displays message, returns Level:Benign or Level:Cancel
Level:Notify (5) displays message, returns Level:Benign
Level:Fatal (3) displays message, halts the program
Level:Program (2) treated as Level:Fatal
Level:Cancel (4) used to confirm no action taken by User
any other value treated as Level:Program

The C11 help page being correct for C6 and C11!

Question is why and what other helps pages are wrong?

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When documentation is written by one person, and code by another, then mistakes in documentation are not uncommon.

When documentation and code are written by the same person then mistakes are not uncommon.

When code keeps being developer, but the documentation is not kept up to date then out-of-date information is not uncommon.

There are certainly plenty of mistakes in the documentation - most of them minor. In some cases it’s abundantly obvious that the documenter has no idea what something does, and the docs are vague enough to cover pretty much any possibility.

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True, but we cant even go on the compiler errors.

I know MS isnt immune to this, they were always secretly changing things and working with their biggest customers behind the scenes in the 90’s.