An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974

Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by isostatic on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:04AM (#18375473)

"The file AUX.H is too large for the system"

That's a bug. It should say something closer to "The filename AUX.H is a reserved filename and can not be used by this system"

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Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by kjaer on Sunday November 04, 2018 @02:23PM (#18377587)

I just tried it on Windows 10, and the error message is:

    This file name is reserved for use by Windows. Choose another name and try again.

So at least that has been fixed.

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Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by isostatic on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:05PM (#18379317)

Never used it. What’s this screenshot from?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrEsBhgUUAACZga.jpg

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Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by naikrovek on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:46AM (#18380126)

That's Win10. I suspect in that screenshot that the file is indeed too big for the filesystem. I don't know how that could be (the "no more free space" message is different.)

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Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by isostatic on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:00AM (#18381362)

9.57KBytes? That would be a very full disk!

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Re:An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake... by naikrovek on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:26AM (#18381752)

Or a very oddly formatted one.

The disk full message is different, so my money is on an oddly formatted disk.

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