On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:50 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When I run xpdf I get the message "Warning: Attempt to remove > > nonexistent passive grab". The program seems to run in spite of this. > > I googled for the message, with a number of hits, but none had any > > suggestion of a solution, or a cause. Developers who introduce warning > > messages like this should be sentenced to read the complete works of > > Kim Jong Il. > Oh, come on. I remember a fellow getting the message "Error in source > deck." from a programming class way back when (?? ALGOL on in an IBM > System/370 ??). > > Now that's a utterly useless error message. > That is fascinating. How did you represent an up arrow in EBCDIC? Not to mention the other non-EBCDIC symbols in Algol. Has anyone ever used a C compiler on a 370. It is a riot. -- ======================================================================= Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart -- and only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -- Ludwig Van Beethoven ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
