Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!kim!freek From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Some Human Interface (was: System Error = 03) Message-ID: <414@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 8 Feb 90 18:14:34 GMT References: <1990Feb4.224159.26586@athena.mit.edu> <2820@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <886@gistdev.gist.com> <33777@news.Think.COM> <51903@bbn.COM> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Reply-To: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 109 X-Dragon: Orm Embar In article <51903@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes: >This is all true, and I agree with it, but I think there is a >perception that the user would be happier with a message like "Bus >error" or "Segment not found" than with "System error 01". If your really think so: here is an INIT named Miner that replaces the *very* obscure text "Sorry, a system error has occurred" by a *much more* understandable explanation like "Bus error." :-) Enclosed is a little application named Bomber that can be used to generate an arbitrary bomb. It will show how Miner affects the messages in the bomb box. 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