Buzz

First sign of madness

Found in the depths of ~richard/mail/chiark-TODO.tar.gz:

From richard@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 17 00:04:29 1996
Status: O
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:04:28 +0100 (BST)
From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
To: richard@elmail.co.uk
Subject: this is a stupid thing to do
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960417000400.30542A-100000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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...and what's worse, it's being done from a talk session.

ttfn/rjk

More stuff I found in ancient email

#define EAGAIN          11      /* Try again */
#define EHARDER         ??      /* Try harder */

#define ENAMETOOLONG    36      /* File name too long */
#define ENAMETOOSHORT   ??      /* File name too short */

#define ETXTBSY         26      /* Text file busy */
#define ETXTLZY         ??      /* Text file lazy */

#define EEXIST          17      /* File exists */
#define EEXISTENTIAL    ??      /* File cannot be proved to exist */

#define EADV            68      /* Advertise error */
#define EADVENT         ??      /* You can't go that way */

(1998, this time.) There's some more suggestions in a reply from Dave: but I don't want to post them without asking...

#define EXDEV           18      /* Cross-device link */
#define EXDIR           ??      /* required number is ex-directory */

#define ENOTTY          25      /* Not a typewriter */
#define ESNOTTY         ??      /* the programmer is a bit stuck-up */

#define EDOM            33      /* Math argument out of domain of func */
#define ESUB            ??      /* Sub has safeworded. */

#define EDOTDOT         73      /* RFS specific error */
#define EDASHDASH       ??      /* Morse-specific error */