[11712] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6Q: cat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 7 22:34:36 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 22:34:20 EST
System name: perilous
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6Q
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
"cat" a file. Not a difficult trick.
What's wrong:
How can you screw up cat, I hear you ask?
cat ~/.plan
cat: cannot open /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/c/f/cfields/.plan
Ok, so the file didn't exist, and maybe it is a difficult trick
after all. But how do I know why cat "cannot open" my file?
What should have happened:
cat should give a useful error message like
/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/c/f/cfields/.plan: No such file or directory
like it does on the DECstation, or even, like "more" does on the
Sun. Returning informative error messages isn't difficult. Sun
should be able to find the technology somewhere...
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
It spends too much time explaining the fine internationalization
features of cat, and too little time explaining cat's useless
diagnostic messages.
