[JRandomFreeper]

the Unix platforms have never been noted for the precision of their error and informational messages

I just checked this variant of linux.

Yep. "Printer on fire" is still a valid error message for an unknown printer error.

/johnny

[re_nortex]

"Printer on fire" is still a valid error message for an unknown printer error.

I've always chuckled at "You don't exist, go away" when a user doesn't have an entry in /etc/passwd or some similar form of authentication. And there's always this classic when the value of errno isn't handled properly.

Failed to open file, error: Success.

[zeugma]

Yep. "Printer on fire" is still a valid error message for an unknown printer error.

Classic. Bad things happen when the magic smoke escapes!