> > > I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of crap.
> >
> >
> > Maybe for developers, but users like it. I can still remember back in
> > the Old Days, taking those error codes and looking them up in something
> > called a "manual" where there was a coherent explanation of
> > what had gone wrong and even suggestions on what to do about it.
>
> I think that's the real point here: without a manual to look things up in,
> none of this actually buys us anything.
Agreed.
> The grepme file someone proposed
It was me. I'm happy to maintain it, if there is sufficient interest.
> seems to be a reasonable first step,
> starting to number or otherways add a code to everything doesn't - it may
> or may not be a reasonable thing after there is experience with the grepme
> file, but we don't have that experience right now so we don't know.
Agreed.
John.
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