From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Do Error Messages Really Help?
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:42:54 +1000
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Martin Peach <martin AT loplop DOT com> wrote in message
news:7pu789$975 AT tandem DOT CAM DOT ORG...
> It sure would be useful to have stuff like ENOENT written out in long, I
> keep trying to guess what it might possibly stand for.
> "Error no Entry"? "Eno ain't here?" "Exit not Entrance?"  Surely there is
> not a DOS-like (8.3) limit on symbolic names?
> \/\/\/*=Martin

How about typing "info libc a errno" at your prompt?

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