Rick Welykochy wrote: > Luke Kendall wrote: > >> Rick Welykochy wrote: >>> Any relation to perror() ? >>> >>> http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/perror.html?manpath=/man/man3/perror.3.inc >>> >> >> No, none whatsoever. :-) perror() is a system call for use in >> programs. "error" is an executable for use from the command line or >> scripts. If you have a program that processes a source file (e.g. gcc >> and .c files, or groff and the Mss for an article), and the program >> reports lots of errors, then "error" can edit the source file to insert >> the etxt of each error just before the line that has the error. Then >> you edit the source file, visiting each error and fixing it up. This >> saves you from flipping between two files. It's one of those >> traditional Unix small utilities that does one thing well. > > An interesting detective challenge. I began searching on google for the > following: > > "error utility" "error message" "source code" > > which produced 240 results. Chasing up one on the SLUG list ... > > http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/05/msg00896.html > > * To: Sydney Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Subject: [SLUG] Anyone know where to find the "error" utility? > * From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:08:44 +1000 (EST) > > Further searching turned up this page in the CVS attic for the > BSD utility: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/error/Attic/ > > And this: > > http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/05/msg00909.html > > where you proposed porting the thing to Linux. > And that is where I stopped searching. > Good luck. Perhaps you can find the sources you need in the Attic. > > > cheers > rickw
Strewth! You're right! When I followed teh attic link, and started preparing the natural place to store the source files, I found the directory already existed with all the sources in it already! I guess that means I'd better get off my behind, and have a go! Thanks, Rick. :-) luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
