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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Errors
Message-ID: <90104.072943CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 90 11:29:43 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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I was trying out my alt.folklore.computers "commands that return nifty error
messages" this morning and noticed something strange:

chopin> cat food
cat: No such file or directory

Unlike most Unix systems:

% cat food
cat: cannot open food

Oh, well.  Variety is the spice of life.  [;-)]


Virtually,
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