Question on Early Unix lore

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2 total messages Started by sh... Larry A. Shurr Fri, 09 Mar 1990 18:48

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Author: 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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Re: Question on Early Unix lore

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Author: a... Andrew MacRae
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 03:05

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In article <14...@cbnews.ATT.COM> sh...@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851) writes:
>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?

I remember hearing that D. Ritchie's car has only one instrument on the
dashboard, a large question mark.  After all, if there is something the
matter the experienced user will know what to look for.

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