[4502] in Athena Bugs
Re: zwgc error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 12 13:15:35 1990
From: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, zephyr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 12 Mar 90 12:16:29 -0500.
Reply-To: marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 13:15:11 EST
>> The error message "zwgc: SERVNAK received while subscribing" (or
>> whatever the exact message is) isn't very useful. It scares users and
>> causes lots of unnecessary OLC questions. Can it be replaced by a
>> more useful message?
It could, but it's arguable how often I should override the default
com_err error codes. Perhaps the zephyr error table should be
rewritten to be more user-friendly? "Server responded negatively" or
somthing like that. It's reasonably understandable for all but the
most naive users, and still holds some meaning for hackers (I'll
translate that internally into "errno == ZERR_SERVNAK" anyway).
Marc
