A Conversation for Useless error messages
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Oct 17, 1999
DMC Calamus was a DTP package written for the Atari ST circa 1989. It was written by Germans, for Germans, with the English-language message files as an afterthought. The error message files were plain text, so it was easy to see the whole list...
One which I actually saw reported on-screen was "No such error message as this one"...!
The best one in the file, which I assume got there because the translator didn't understand the original German message, was "This document is UGLY! [Erase|Erase]"... or perhaps they meant it?
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shazzPRME Posted Oct 17, 1999
LOL....and can anyone tell me why a useless programme that I uninstalled months ago still causes my computer to burp and wheeze at start up and refuse to run without a mighty push! The damned file isn't ANYWHERE on my comp.....so how the hell can I find it and uninstall it!!!I am getting tired of all it's INI EXE grumbling!!
shazz 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 17, 1999
Shazz -
If you know what the name of the file was (I'm assuming a WinTel PC here) run "Regedit" and do a "Find" on the filename - your machine may be actually searching for the missing file every time... If you don't find a reference there, run "Sysedit" and look through the other system files. Don't edit anything at this stage, just look and see what's there, and let us know...
If you say what the file is/was, and how you uninstalled it, you might get more specific help/advice 
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shazzPRME Posted Oct 17, 1999
Thanx for that 
To be honest..I know exactly what it was...the stupid Webaccelerator prog....and a comp lit. friend of mine reckons that it has buried it where I can't reach it!!Would it help to d/load the prog again....install it and then uninstall it! That way it might root out the missing file at the same time......or am I being a prat as usual!
shazz
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C Hawke Posted Oct 18, 1999
Peet's contribution has been noted and is now on the page. Shazz, I'm convinced a bit of black magic is sometime called for in PC trouble shooting. You'll probably find the software has cursed your registery or put a hex on your ini files. These days it is impossible for mere mortals to understand what goes on when software is loaded.
I do know however, as our IS gods at work use it, that there is software out there that examines the hard drive and all setting before and after a package is loaded and lists all the changes, what I don't know is what changes that makes itself to the machine! Who guards the guardians and all that
CH
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shazzPRME Posted Oct 18, 1999
Very true! Never mind...I have quite become used to it by now...I might even miss the friendly greeting if I ever did remove it!
shazz
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 17, 1999)
- 2: shazzPRME (Oct 17, 1999)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 17, 1999)
- 4: shazzPRME (Oct 17, 1999)
- 5: C Hawke (Oct 18, 1999)
- 6: shazzPRME (Oct 18, 1999)
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