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2.4 KiB
Groff
75 lines
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Groff
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Thanks to gls@hrmso.att.com for sending me a copy of this.
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Since it's 5 years old, many of you probably haven't seen it before.
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>From rocksanne!rochester!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ihnp4!chinet!nucsrl!naim Tue Sep 16 01:45:44 1986
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Path: sunybcs!rocksanne!rochester!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ihnp4!chinet!nucsrl!naim
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From: naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah)
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Newsgroups: net.jokes
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Subject: errno(2) codes
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Message-ID: <1110002@nucsrl.UUCP>
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Date: 16 Sep 86 05:45:44 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern University
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Lines: 54
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The following was sent to me by a friend who was working at HP during
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the summer. I am posting it here for the people who missed the
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USENIX conference and who don't get the HP newsgroups.
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==============================================================================
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At the USENIX Association conference in Atlanta recently a contest was
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held to invent the most humorous/bizarre/etc UN*X error message of the
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errno(2) 'EERROR' type. This contest had been tried at an earlier European
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Users Group meeting, where the winning entry was:
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ENOTOBACCO Read on an empty pipe
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You get the idea. A partial [alphabetized] list of 'top(?)' entries from
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Atlanta [and from several readers of hp.unix] follows; if your pun/wierdness
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tolerance is low, you may want to abandon ship:
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EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
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ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
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ECRAY Program exited before being run
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EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
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EFLAT System needs tuning
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EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
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EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
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EIUD Missing period
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ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
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EMILYPOST Wrong fork
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END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
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ENOHORSE Mount failed
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ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from
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main(){printf("Hello, world");}
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EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
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EWOK Aliens sighted
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EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
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EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet
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And finally, a sort-of 'period piece':
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EMR.ED A host is a host,
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From coast to coast
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And nobody talks to a host that's close,
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Unless the host that isn't close
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Is busy, hung, or dead.
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I would also like this new signal to be supported:
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SIGNUKE Nuclear event occurred (cannot be caught or ignored :-)
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======================================================================
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Naim Abdullah
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Dept. of EECS,
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Northwestern University,
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ihnp4!nucsrl!naim
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--
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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>
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