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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 needs better error messages
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.223135.21144@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:31:35 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1k1disINNdde@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >OS/2 2.0's command line error messages are poor. Sometimes they are short
- >and bad, such as the messsage that a non bootable disk formatted under
- >os/2 give if a user boots off of it by accident. What ever happened to
- >"non-system disk in drive a:, please remove disk and press any key to
- >continue?" Other times they are long and bad, such as the error message
- >that replaced "bad command or filename". The unifing factor here is bad.
- >This is especially annoying because it is easy to fix.
-
- Well, HELP (error message number) from within OS/2 gives you more
- detailed help.
-
- However, for the specific example you gave, we've been over this
- before in this newsgroup. The reason it was changed was because
- non-English reading users would find an English message rather
- cryptic. (Now everyone finds the error numbers cryptic. :-)) I
- understand IBM's looking for a more satisfactory solution, but I like
- seeing a U.S. company thinking about customers outside its borders.
- (They are always accused of not doing that, it seems.)
-
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