From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1574e990d7d9faea01829e1a5a00e1e4@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:17:26 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ffdd724-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > You mean like > IEF450I JOBXXX STEPA - ABEND=S0C4 REASON=00000010 > > Yes, those were the good old days. Computers weren't commodities, then. Was that any worse than a pop-up window that describes everything except what the error is really about and gives no pointers to additional information? At least with the IBM manuals, it was possible to find out where the above originated and to establish an apporximation to the cause. All I'm after is a somewhat less expensive approach to translating an error message to its nearest Unix errno. This is no more demanding than providing for multilanguage error messages, something Plan 9 will no doubt have to do before too long. ++L