Question on Early Unix lore

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From: sh... Larry A. Shurr
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 18:48

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I remember being told that the "early" Unix shell had only two error
messages: "huh?" and "ouch!"  "huh?" was for invalid commands and
"ouch!" was for syntax errors.  Anybody know anthing about this?

regards, Larry
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From: sh...@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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Subject: Question on Early Unix lore
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:48:10 GMT
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