Weird Problem with cat

[Juergen Wagner]

In article <134 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>...
>Hey, an excuse to post one of my favorite flames:  Once again, some
>turkey programmer wrote an application that produced an error message,
>and didn't say what caused the error.
>...

One of the worst examples of this is probably the disk formatter on XEROX 1108
LispMachines. When you are formatting a disk, and some error occurs, you get
the message
	Something is wrong. Cannot proceed.
and you are back to the executive prompt. Very helpful, indeed. Something must
be wrong... :-)

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Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf at csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner at arisia.xerox.com