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Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time

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From: s... Steve Lamont
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 15:31
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In article <1990Sep27....@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
>Alternate disk sector mapping sanity check. Also present is
>0xdeadfeeb as the volume label magic number.

A core file has the magic number of 0xdeadadb0.  How many other of the
hexajokes are there?

							spl (the p stands for
							poking around core
							dumps, again...)
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Message-ID: <1490@cs.nps.navy.mil>
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References: <1990Sep26.015201.19164@news.clarkson.edu> <1990Sep27.032528.13587@nmt.edu> <1990Sep27.130011.7106@specialix.co.uk>

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From: s...@cs.nps.navy.mil (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time
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Date: 28 Sep 90 15:31:58 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.015201.19164@news.clarkson.edu> <1990Sep27.032528.13587@nmt.edu> <1990Sep27.130011.7106@specialix.co.uk>
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