Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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From: Curt Sampson
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 00:36

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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!  :-)

cjs             ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )

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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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Date: 25 Sep 90 00:36:58 GMT
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