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From: | DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Do Error Messages Really Help? |
Date: | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:55:07 GMT |
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;-) That made me laugh. I'm going with the first one: ENOENT = Error: No Entry as in "there was an [E]rror: I was looking for a file but there was [NO] matching directory [ENT]ry". Davin. On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:38:10 -0400, "Martin Peach" <martin AT loplop DOT com> wrote: >It sure would be useful to have stuff like ENOENT written out in long, I >keep trying to guess what it might possibly stand for. >"Error no Entry"? "Eno ain't here?" "Exit not Entrance?" Surely there is >not a DOS-like (8.3) limit on symbolic names? >\/\/\/*=Martin > > __________________________________________________________ *** davmac - sharkin'!! davmac AT iname DOT com *** my programming page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~davmac/
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