January 29th, 2018

Well that was a helpful error message

errors in directory c:\src\blah
c:\src\blah\mumbletool : error error: ???????????????

I guess the tool doesn’t know what went wrong either.

Maybe the error message could have been

errors in directory c:\src\blah
c:\src\blah\mumbletool : error error:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand, that could very well have been the error message it wanted to print, except that the characters didn’t survive the translation to the OEM code page.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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