Funny error messages

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Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard

A special bonus to the person who can name the person who made this quote (published earlier this year in a print magazine....)

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Bjarne Stroustrup?

Not a *real* error message, but still funny:
Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though
with a follow-up:
DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"...

The GNU strings program lets you see all strings in an executable, including error messages. Here are some examples from running it on TeX:

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(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
Ouch---my internal constants have been clobbered!
! End of file on the terminal... why?

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Originally Posted by BytePtr

No errors from me but look at these.
The Windows Cement and Neanderthal Technology are very funny
http://zoocow.com/jokes/funny-window...-messages/187/

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It real fun that you seen Funny Messages
from windows containing errors, you know some times you with some unexpected errors from which you never had meeting before.

Just ran into one the other day, using one of our internal tools:

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(ERROR ) You cannot run this command here, go to a directory then try to run it again.

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Mind you, this was on Linux. Ummm, how can you not be in a directory?

Viggy