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Started by fl... Alan J Rosenthal
Tue, 25 Sep 1990 16:47
Re: Worst error messages of all time.
Author: fl... Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 16:47
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 16:47
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The following interesting message is printed by /bin/mail if you run it with an argc of zero (not possible from the shell): puke [Actually, I can't duplicate this; perhaps the library code for execl in sun 3.5 unix prohibits this possibility, but the code is definitely in mail.c (I looked).] ajr -- "Anytime there are electronic systems there are usually complications of electronic failure," he said.
Re: Worst error messages of all time.
Author: dw... david.e.wexelblat
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 16:17
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 16:17
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SYSV make: > make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. SYSV cat: > cat "tin can" cat: cannot open tin can SYSV sh: >"jimmy hoffa" jimmy hoffa: not found -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- David Wexelblat | dw...@mtgzx.att.com | They recommended AT&T Bell Laboratories | ...!att!mtgzx!dwex | euthanasia 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421 | | For nonconformists Middletown, NJ 07748 | (201) 957-5871 | everywhere
Re: Worst error messages of all time.
Author: Huw Davies - La Trobe University...
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 23:20
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 23:20
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My two favorite error messages, both from our dearly departed DECsystem-10 (36 bits for ever :-) The BLISS-10 compiler would give up with the error message punt! (Didn't mean a lot to us Australians who had never seen a game of American football!) The SAIL compiler would (in serious difficulty) write Dry rot It's sad that humor is disappearing from software!
Re: Worst error messages of all time.
Author: mor... Morten Ronseth
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 12:58
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 12:58
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Paul Barth writes:
Since we are all now great Unix wizards, the follow might be
humorous. It came to me from Umass.
Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be
issued from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne
shell.
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% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
% "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% got a light?
No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
% sh
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
--
David B. Stewart, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr., and The Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, email: ste...@faraday.ece.cmu.edu
The following software is now available; ask me for details
CHIMERA II, A Real-time OS for Sensor-Based Control Applications
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