what do those mean?

error: tabread4~: no method for 'bang'
error: line~: no method for 'table...'
error: delay: no method for 'set'
error: knob: no method for 'set1'

y

it means you're trying to send messages into objects that they can't understand.

is this by any chance from a max patch being converted into pd? because otherwise it would be pretty weird to get all those sort of errors.

I have a similar problem:

error: delay: no method for 'clear'

The small patch is taken directly from http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/ch02s02.html, that is suppose to be a tutorial so I assume it should be right.

However sending a clear via a message box into a (del 5000) object results in this repsonse. The clear is suppose to clear the bang that has been sent to the (del 5000) object box before the delay period has expired/operated. Yet PD doesn't seem to understand this and returns the above error message.

Any ideas?

That should be [stop(.

indeed, now it works... thanks