Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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From: jo... Jon Brawn
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 10:09

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a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:

>I think that error messages still have a ways to go before they get truly,
>truly bad.  Most of the ones that you see so far give you some indication of
>what's wrong, and even tell you which program (application, OS, whatever) had
>the error.

>Imagine the following on your brand new UNIX box:

>        $ cd sr
>        $ myprog
>        Oops.
>        $
>Now wouldn't *that* send you madly scrambling for fsck!  :-)
More likely my manual page for curses! This is a genuine unix(tm) libcurses
error!
>cjs             ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )
-- 
Here I speak neither for Specialix, nor myself. What you see is all you get.
Jon Brawn, jo...@specialix.co.uk  (or for you bangers: ..!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb)
  ``Once upon a time, not so very long ago, on a network not so very far away''

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From: jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn)
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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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