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Article #1066Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Caley
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <VA.00000860.00c62a26@one>, Stuart Grant (sg) writes: >> I shall remember to ask you next time I'm trying to work out what >> `This application has performed an illegal operation and will be >> terminated' means. sg> Simple - it's in plain english and can be deciphered with a dictionary A) No it isn't. `application', `illegal operation' and `terminated' are technobabble. B) If someone understands the technobabble they will work the message is completely vacuous and has been put there because no one could be arsed to put in a proper message. sg> It means you close the application and re-start it to continue sg> working. See, even you couldn't decode it. It means the application will crash all by itself taking your work with it. An experienced user will also know it's best tpo restart windows before attempting to do any more work as the whole thing is probably unstable now. And beyond all that you still don't know what happened and why. How can you fix it? How can you avoid it? Note, I'm not saying unix is better, just that any asserting that windows is a properly designed consumer product is just bizzare. At least `segemntation fault' is brief and to the point and doesn't pop up a window I have to close (and doesn't take out the entire system). -- Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/27
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