[11858] in Athena Bugs
olta [7.6R sun4]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sat Mar 19 15:24:35 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 20:24:31 GMT
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU
What were you trying to do?
Trying to figure out a weirdness in the PCLU runtime library, but
that's not the point.
What first led you to believe that the universe was out to get you?
I tried to ask a question in olta:
; olta
Welcome to OLTA, Project Athena's On-Line Consulting system. (v 3.1)
Copyright (c) 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Only courses which have registered with Athena to use OLTA will have
course topics available! Please send questions or problems with the
service via electronic mail to: f_l@mit.edu
To ask a question, type: ask
olta> ask 6.170
Please type a one-word topic for your question. Type ? for a list of
available topics or ^D to exit.
Topic: 6.170
You are not allowed to ask OLC questions.
Does defeat the purpose of things, doesn't it?
thankfully, using `ask' and then giving it the topic `6.170' works.
Would you like to blather on a bit here?
Why, yes, thank you.
This problem set was due *wednesday*, and I don't really have lots
of time to go through mental steps like ``Oh, yeah, this is olta, a
bad knockoff of the amazingly buggy olc software, so maybe the
clear, direct, succinct error message actually did COME OUT OF
NOWHERE and it's really just a STUPID BUG IN THE PARSER''. If it
hadn't happened that I'd debugged olc[r,d] some before, I seriously
doubt I would have gone through such steps; instead, I would have
gone through steps closer to ``Wow, when those people over in Tech
Square say how much Athena loses, I guess they were right after
all.''.
