Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:42:52 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Do Error Messages Really Help?
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Dan Gold wrote:

> if you could simply double-click on the text and you could get more in
> depth info like telling you what it means and possible reasons why your
> code is recieving this message debugging would then be more enjoyable, and
> the next time they got the message they would understand.

Well, how about if you sit down and make such a list?  Then at least we 
could add these explanations to the library docs and to other utilities, 
as their maintainers see fit.

The problem is always to write the material, not to display it.  The lack 
of docs is first and foremost due to lack of people who are willing to 
invest the non-trivial effort of writing up the text, not beacuse it's 
rocket science to display that text at a mouse click.

Experience shows that nothing in DJGPP gets done without dedicated 
individuals that volunteer to do it.