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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Weird Problem with cat
Message-ID: <6519@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 88 21:44:10 GMT
References: <41@eplrx7.UUCP> <134@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <134@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>...
>Hey, an excuse to post one of my favorite flames:  Once again, some
>turkey programmer wrote an application that produced an error message,
>and didn't say what caused the error.
>...

One of the worst examples of this is probably the disk formatter on XEROX 1108
LispMachines. When you are formatting a disk, and some error occurs, you get
the message
	Something is wrong. Cannot proceed.
and you are back to the executive prompt. Very helpful, indeed. Something must
be wrong... :-)

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com