Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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2 total messages Started by Curt Sampson Tue, 25 Sep 1990 00:36

#4719

Author: 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 )

Re: Worst error messages of all time.

#4720

Author: jo... Jon Brawn
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 10:09

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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!  :-)
More likely my manual page for curses! This is a genuine unix(tm) libcurses
error!
>cjs             ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )
-- 
Here I speak neither for Specialix, nor myself. What you see is all you get.
Jon Brawn, jo...@specialix.co.uk  (or for you bangers: ..!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb)
  ``Once upon a time, not so very long ago, on a network not so very far away''

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