On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:49 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > This thread lives again! Here's my favorite from a > > previous useless error thread: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-April/msg03494.html > > There was this brilliant command on the Amiga, called "why." After some > program had just turned its toes up and left you with an error message > that, probably, only the original programmer would understand, you could > type in "why" and be given a much more human description of the last > error. It beats me why other systems didn't do something similar. And in a related idea, we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, meaning Do What I Mean, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines