Re: Favorite error messages

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3 total messages Started by je... Jerry Gardner Tue, 25 Sep 1990 18:27

#4749

Author: je... Jerry Gardner
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 18:27

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My all-time favorite has to be the RSTS/E error message that says:

	"Program lost - Sorry"



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Jerry Gardner, NJ6A					Altos Computer Systems
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Internet: je...@altos.com				San Jose, CA  95134
Guns don't kill people, bullets do.                     (408) 432-6200

Re: Favorite error messages

#4750

Author: g... Gail Zacharias
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 05:12

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I like this TeX error message:

           "You can't do that in horizontal mode!"

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Re: Favorite error messages

#4751

Author: pa... Bill Parke
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 15:08

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In article <41...@altos86.Altos.COM>, je...@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
writes:
|> From: je...@altos86.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
|> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
|> Subject: Re: Favorite error messages
|> Reply-To: jerry@altos86.UUCP (Jerry Gardner)
|> 
|> 
|> My all-time favorite has to be the RSTS/E error message that says:
|> 
|> 	"Program lost - Sorry"
    (Life before DIGITAL)
	Which I replaced with:

		"HARK, what hath thou wrought ?"

	causing QUITE a stir in the user community when they called for a
	non existant program.  Of course, RuN AMUCK dis something on our 
	RSTS system.

|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jerry Gardner, NJ6A					Altos Computer Systems
|> UUCP: {sun|pyramid|sco|amdahl|uunet}!altos!jerry	2641 Orchard Parkway
|> Internet: je...@altos.com				San Jose, CA  95134
|> Guns don't kill people, bullets do.                     (408) 432-6200
|> 
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Bill Parke 			parke%sta...@decwrl.dec.com
VMS Development			decwrl!star.enet.dec.com!parke
Digital Equipment Corp		pa...@star.enet.dec.com
110 Spit Brook Road ZK01-1/F22, Nashua NH 03063

The views expressed are my own.

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