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In article <1k1disINNdde@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>OS/2 2.0's command line error messages are poor.  Sometimes they are short
>and bad, such as the messsage that a non bootable disk formatted under 
>os/2 give if a user boots off of it by accident.  What ever happened to
>"non-system disk in drive a:, please remove disk and press any key to 
>continue?"  Other times they are long and bad, such as the error message 
>that replaced "bad command or filename".  The unifing factor here is bad.
>This is especially annoying because it is easy to fix.

Well, HELP (error message number) from within OS/2 gives you more
detailed help.

However, for the specific example you gave, we've been over this
before in this newsgroup.  The reason it was changed was because
non-English reading users would find an English message rather
cryptic.  (Now everyone finds the error numbers cryptic.  :-))  I
understand IBM's looking for a more satisfactory solution, but I like
seeing a U.S. company thinking about customers outside its borders.
(They are always accused of not doing that, it seems.)

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