Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Corrupt history file?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.164741.1586@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 16:47:41 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.053233.26712@jpradley.jpr.com> <1991Mar15.162041.17102@zoo.toronto.edu> <2861@atari.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <2861@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>I've seen a couple of messages from Henry to this effect -- "message A means
>problem B."
>
>It seems like these things could be added to the error messages.  I realize
>that it would make things pretty verbose...

Unfortunately, you can end up with each error message being a paragraph
long, and it *still* isn't as explicit as you'd like.  There is also a very
serious problem with people treating a best guess as Holy Writ and never
looking for any other cause.

While the messages could stand improving in a number of places, the real
solution to this is a Troubleshooting Guide for the novices.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry