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King Ables

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Jul 4, 1986, 2:28:17 AM7/4/86
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Until the honest-to-God-real-official list from the errno contest
gets posted by someone, maybe these will suffice... these are a
few I copied down and most of the ones mentioned during the "awards
presentation" for the contest.

EWALDHEIM selective memory erasure
ENO_ARMS_CONTROL silo overflow
EECUMMINGS case translation failed
EGODOT endless wait
EWATERGATE extended tape gap
ECRAY program exit before being run
EUID missing period
EBSD your tape will be shipped real soon now, we promise
ENO_DICE error in rand()
EFLAT file system needs tuning
EBEFOREI invalid syntax
EDINGDONG the daemon is dead
EEMILYPOST wrong fork
ENOT_ON_HORSE mount failed

and of course...

EMR_ED

A host is a host
and coast to coast
nobody talks to a host that's close
unless the host that isn't close
is busy, hung, or dead.

-King
ARPA: ab...@mcc.arpa
UUCP: {gatech,ihnp4,nbires,seismo,ucbvax}!ut-sally!im4u!milano!mcc-pp!ables
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