Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: primordial error messages (was: How do you tell a wizard?) Keywords: flowers, birdies, trees, chirp, tweet, `Arf!' Message-ID: <4489@solo9.cs.vu.nl> Date: 9 Nov 89 22:46:03 GMT References: <20408@mimsy.umd.edu> <10242@encore.Encore.COM> <20434@mimsy.umd.edu> <1997@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <739@ontek.UUCP> <15770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 20 In article <15770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: \... \% rm God \rm: God nonexistent SunOS 4.0.3c: % rm God rm: God: No such file or directory Fortunately ar(1) still has the correct response: % ar t God ar: God does not exist And: % ar r God ar: creating God -- "civil, friendly conversation was going on in net.suicide. Train schedules and flaming came much later." (Monica Cellio) | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart