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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Fri Jun 26 1987 on ho5cad (usg-unix-v)


In article <339@cbstr1.att.com> Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com writes:

>>  This month's "Worst Error Message of the Month Award" goes
>>  unconditionally to compress 4.0.
>>
>>	   Not a typewriter
>>
>>  Well, duh!  That's right, it's NOT a typewriter.  It's a binary
>>  executable, suitable for exec'ing.
>>
>>  Lovely, just lovely.

Well, I agree.  This  is pretty funny.   But don't blame compress.   A
lot  of  programs give you  this.   Seems to be  what  you get on some
machines when you  call "perror()" when  there ain't been no error (of
its genre) [or  maybe when the error number  is bigger than the secret
message array].

Better than your message  from compress, we get  it from sendmail when
it can't find somebody or some machine:

	503 cbstr1: not a typewriter
	602 karl: not a typewriter

Usually,  when I see   one of these  about somebody   I know or  their
machine, I  forward it   to them so   that  they know  they're  not  a
typewriter.  Here's one for you.

	Bill Carpenter
	(AT&T gateways)!ho5cad!wjc
	HO 1L-410, (201)949-8392

PS:- If you actually  happen to be a  typewriter, my apologies for the
above cruel remarks. :-}