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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: bin/1459: error messages lacking in /usr/bin/fetch
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1459; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: bin/1459: error messages lacking in /usr/bin/fetch
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:16:07 -0400

 <<On Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:50:07 -0700 (PDT), "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> said:
 
 > +		    err (1, "Could not open output file %s\n", outputfile);
 
 Error messages should not be capitalized.
 
 Putting a newline on the end of a message makes it look stupid:
 
 fetch: Could not open output file foo
 : Permission denied
 
 -GAWollman
 
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