[13438] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7R: zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian K Zuzga)
Fri Apr 21 14:24:00 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:23:51 EDT
From: Brian K Zuzga <boogles@MIT.EDU>
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.
