Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 20:28:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some small ideas Message-ID: <9505141828.AA15923@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199505131134.EAA00329@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 13, 95 04:34:07 am
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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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