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Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2004 10:15:43 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

> > 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.

I don't get it, you think 'phase error' is not a useful error message :-)

ron