From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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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
>
>

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