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Subject:Error Message Boo Boos From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 4 Aug 1995 15:54:52 GMT
In article <95080312143014375 -at- mustang -dot- com>, Gwen Barnes
<gwen -dot- barnes -at- mustang -dot- com> writes:
>One of our techsports found this conversation fragment
>on a CIS forum ...
>Subj: Squueekkyy Hing want Oil
>==========================================================
>>> when telling me that an error 138 was not possible because it is
>>> "out of the range of possible errors"
>I once got an error message from LightWave that said " An impossible
>event has occured. Continue?, Cancel?"
Or, even worse, the error messages that say "Your data has been
destroyed" and then want you to click OK. No, it's *not* OK!
And I really hate the Mac error message that comes up when an
application dies. "Application unknown has unexpectedly quit."
No kidding! I never would have noticed if you hadn't told me...
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