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Article #4846Re: Worst error messages of all time.
From: al... Alan Grant Finlay
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 14:50
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 14:50
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In article <3304@mindlink.UUCP#, 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! :-) # What about the still current Unix error message: "wrong magic number". Sorry if I have misquoted it somewhat but I got more or less this message quite innocently when I transfered some files from one Unix system to another without realising one of them was an executable file and tried to "make" and then execute.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!alanf From: al...@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Grant Finlay) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time. Message-ID: <3140@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Date: 27 Sep 90 14:50:20 GMT References: <3304@mindlink.UUCP# Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Sep 27 15:50:20 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit