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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 17:01:22 +0200
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> unix says 'bus error'; plan 9 tells you the pc of
> the fault, or in other cases the file name that failed, the
> fp trap condition, and so on and so on. it's not some
> set of 23 errors; it's a huge informative space. why give that
> up?

i wasn't advocating that.  the core messages such as 'bus error'
(or whatever) can be translated.  the pc or fp error codes are
gonna be a) not useful to translate or b) impossible to translate.

i 'spose you could return numeric info in roman numerals, but ... ;)