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Article #4745Re: Worst error messages of all time.
From: mor... Morten Ronseth
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 12:58
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 12:58
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Paul Barth writes:
Since we are all now great Unix wizards, the follow might be
humorous. It came to me from Umass.
Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be
issued from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne
shell.
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% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
% "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% got a light?
No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
% sh
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
--
David B. Stewart, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr., and The Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, email: ste...@faraday.ece.cmu.edu
The following software is now available; ask me for details
CHIMERA II, A Real-time OS for Sensor-Based Control Applications
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