Error is just "18"...help!

I'm trying to fix PROGDOR so it works with big ol' files, but it crashes instead. It's what I presume to be a 'too long without yield' error, but when doing pcall(), all it returns for the error message is '18'. It doesn't give me a line number (and no, it's not line 18.)

Help! What does it mean? Has anyone else encountered it?

EDIT: For reference, the thing I am specifically doing is installing the Axiom OS, going to shell, downloading Progdor, running 'progdor . axos', and saying 'N' to including self or read-only files. The first file it seeks and tries to compress is 'sys.axs', which is 2467 lines and 108517 bytes.

Little annoying to have to go and search for random programs to be able to reproduce error… but I ran everything exactly as you described, and got a too long without yielding error on line 47. The number errors can result from numerous different things, and are not always related to the specific code on the specific computer (especially if you are testing on a server).

valithor, on 19 August 2016 - 04:38 AM said:

Little annoying to have to go and search for random programs to be able to reproduce error… but I ran everything exactly as you described, and got a too long without yielding error on line 47. The number errors can result from numerous different things, and are not always related to the specific code on the specific computer (especially if you are testing on a server).

Weird! I was testing on CCEmuRedux. Maybe that's why it gave me that error. Thanks.

EDIT: I tried again, and it gave me the correct error, too long without yielding. How odd. Anyway, I fixed the problem by adding a yielding function in the middle of a loop.