From: utzoo!watmath!idallen Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news.b Title: Identify program error messages, please! Article-I.D.: watmath.3082 Posted: Thu Jul 22 22:16:58 1982 Received: Fri Jul 23 00:19:18 1982 Programs that issue error messages should always, always, always prefix the message by their invoking name. I've just seen three "can't stat" messages come after doing an inews and while doing a readnews. Do I know which program they came from? No. I'll have to mess around needlessly to find out where the problem is. Please, all you Wizards and programmers, label your output! This is so very important in a multi-process environment where messages could come from any of several concurrently executing processes. -IAN! U of Waterloo