From holger@miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at Tue Apr 14 05:09:24 1992 Return-Path: [holger@miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at] Received: from miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.39.22]) by marie.stat.uga.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01840; Tue, 14 Apr 92 05:09:24 EDT Received: by miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at id AA02642 (5.64+/IDA-1.3.4 for david@marie.stat.uga.edu); Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:07:52 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:07:52 +0200 From: "Holger Reusch (Dipl. ALF in spe)" [holger@miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at] Message-Id: [9204140907.AA02642@miles.vmars.tuwien.ac.at] To: david@marie.stat.uga.edu Subject: Re: need DEC- or IBM-type error messages Newsgroups: rec.humor References: [1992Apr11.211551.27688@athena.cs.uga.edu] Reply-To: holger@vmars.vmars.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna, Dept. for Real Time Systems Status: O In rec.humor you write: ] Hi, folks! ] I was telling a buddy about the strange and (for me) difficult to ] understand error messages that one can get on a DEC or IBM mainframe ] system (running vm, mebbe? way out of my league...), and he hadn't ] ever seen any examples of such things. In case I'm being too vague, ] they look something like E-DSKIOPRB for a disk io problem error... I don't have a list handy, but there is one memorable message which comes to mind... On IBM mainframes running DOS (the predecessor of MVS) there was a FORMAT command, that was used to format tapes or the like. This command had an option to "scratch" the tape, that is, to remove the previous contend. If you entered //FORMAT DEV=TAP01 LRECL=512 SCRATCH you were rewarded with the friendly message IJL8701E SPELL OPTION 'SCRATCH' W/O THE 'A' Quite a user-friendly system, wasn't it? -- | Holger Reusch | | Technical University of Vienna, Austria [-+--- No kangaroos here, | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | sorry! | holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at |
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