[582] in Zephyr_Bugs
NetProb ticket #3329, sun4 7.7R: zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mbarker@MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 21 14:34:24 1995
From: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:34:13 -0400
To: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
Cc:
enjoy...
mike
>From boogles@MIT.EDU Fri Apr 21 14:24:00 1995
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>From: Brian K Zuzga <boogles@MIT.EDU>
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>System name: eecs-ath-34
>Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7R (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type: cgthree
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
>eecs-ath-34% znol
>znol: No such file or directory
>eecs-ath-34% which znol
>/usr/athena/bin/znol
>eecs-ath-34% zwgc
>eecs-ath-34% znol
>boogles: eecs-ath-34.MIT.EDU munster.ai:0 Fri Apr 21 14:16:20 1995
>...
>
>What's wrong:
>
>The error message "znol: No such file or directory" is almost
>embarassing. It doesn't tell me what the heck is wrong. In fact, the
>first few times I got this message I thought I had just typed "znol"
>wrong and was getting a "Command not found" error.
>
>What should have happened:
>
>I should have gotten an error message that said that it couldn't find
>the windowgram socket thing-a-ma-bob or something equally as useful to
>tell me what it couldn't find.
>
>If this was NetBSD I would have just patched the source, submitted the
>patch, and the new winning code would be distributed out to 1E3 users
>before the night was over. Do you guys accept patched sources if I
>find similiar problems? (This is not intended as a flame.)
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>The 6.170 text book chapter on error handling.
>
