Re: flexfax: Multitech & faxaddmodem problem

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:12:42PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > Forgive me, Nico, but doesn't that message mean that fuser is
> > _missing_, rather than merely not running?
> 
> Actually, no. This is an unfortunate aspect of many error messages
> in systems maintained by people without a manager to tell them "make
> the messages correct for every possibility": it wasn't able to successfully
> *RUN* fuser, and assumes you actually don't have one. It's not always
> right about it. The odds of a modern OS not having fuser is quite
> small.

Be damned.

That should probably be reported to (I thnk it's) Larry Wall as a bug
in configure, I should think.

At least, I _think_ that message is coming from configure.

Cheers,
-- jra
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