Re: Misleading error message with unreadable ~/.idata

Jason Rennie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> I was misdirected to create a directory ~/.idata before attempting to
> run ifile for the first time. While this is a bit pathological, I
> would expect that the same error message will be printed in other
> situations where there is in fact a problem with ~/.idata (read-only,
> directory write protected, etc). 

Yeah.  That is a confusing error message.  Would it help to prefix each 
line with "~/.idata: " or something similar?  What would you recommend as 
a fix?

[email protected] said:
> While I have your attention, any chance to get a manual page? 

Ask and ye shall receive.  I just released 1.0.8 with a man page :)

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
[email protected]
(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/
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