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Article #5391

Re: Favourite Error Messages

#5391
From: The Grey Wolf
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 00:46
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In article <29@dalnet.UUCP> daniel@dalnet.UUCP (Daniel Finster) writes:
>.. well.. while we're on the subject.. a favorite of mine has always been 
>"Memory Destroyed" which is only (in myt experience) gotten with {MS,PC}-DOS running 4dos .. oh well.. but as far as standard error messages go... :
>
>Fatal - Internal Stack Failure - System Halted

Gads, this reminded me of something that someone here did once (Kip, you
listening?).

I had just received a development platform in my office, and I was setting
it up.  This person came in and proceeded to log in on the console of this
box (I was logged into tty00 for some strange reason).
Now I was working on something kind of important, so my heart kind of skipped
a beat when I saw this happen:

jundland login: kip
Password:

"The Jundland wastes are not to be traveled lightly..." -- B. Kenobi
TERM= (vt100)
Stack Overflow - System Halted _
			       ^ (cursor --ed)

I just kind of sat there, numbly staring at the screen, not quite believing
what I was seeing.  My next reaction was "*WHAT* did you *do*? ", as I
frantically hit the return key...
...and received
mai: not found
$
$
$ _

I had forgotten that he liked to stick things in his prompt like that.
I think I almost throttled him.

>
>hehe... now back to our regulalryl schedualed newsgroup... already in progress
>
>(.signature??!!? .signature?!?!? i jsut got my new account and you expect me to have set up a .signature!?!?!?.. wait a few days.. it'll be here...)

-- 
"This is *not* going to work!"
				"Well, why didn't you say so before?"
"I *did* say so before!"
...!{ucbvax,acad,uunet,amdahl,pyramid}!unisoft!greywolf
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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Favourite Error Messages
Message-ID: <3207@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 00:46:15 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.181838.5779@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990Oct24.003653.2109@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <596@roo.UUCP> <29@dalnet.UUCP>
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