[comp.unix.internals] V.4 and perror

ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (pri=-10 Nick Crossley) (09/28/90)

In article <-906I93@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I have a question.
>In V.4 have they finally got all those bloody stupid commands to use perror?
>I'm getting really sick of "cat: can't open <filename>".

In the case of cat, no, it still just prints 'cat: cannot open <name>'.
Some other commands have been altered to have more complete/verbose
messages.
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