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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <BxKzCs.GyD@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:10:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >Just (a) fixing all applications so they call perror on failure, and (b)
- >cutting down on the overloading of error messages, would do wonders.
-
- Have you looked at SVR4.2 yet? From what I've seen (which,
- admittedly, has not been much), it looks like they've retrofitted onto
- all the commands that horrible "UX:program: ERROR: ..." message format
- that the LP subsystem uses under earlier versions of System V. I
- really, really wish they would have decided on something different to
- use as the standard, but...
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "There are two ways to solve this problem:
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | the hard way, and the easy way. Let's start
- | with the hard way."
- | - W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-