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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: some small ideas
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 20:28:27 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > * the next thing is only a cosmetic one:
> > 
> > graichen@mordillo:~cc
> > cc: No input files
> > graichen@mordillo:~c++
> > c++: No input files specified.
> > 
> > graichen@mordillo:~f77
> > f77: No input files specified.
> > 
> > why not:
> > 
> > graichen@mordillo:~cc
> > cc: No input files
> > graichen@mordillo:~c++
> > c++: No input files
> > graichen@mordillo:~f77
> > f77: No input files
> 
> Why???  Look up the work specified, also look up what makes a sentence
> in an english book.  ``No input files'' is a the sentence fragement,
> error messages should be complete english sentences.
> 
> > it should ba a thing of 1 minute to change it
> 
> And 2 minutes to say why it should not be changed :-)
> 

my basic idea was only to have the same message for all three - t

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