standardized error messages

[John Quarterman]

From: Mike Trachtman  <wizard%wisdom.bitnet at WISCVM.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 85 13:03:51 -0200
To: std-unix at ut-sally.arpa
Subject: standardized error messages

Is any thought being given to having the compilers, grep, etc.
give error messages in a standard form, so
that programs will be able to parse them.

This is good for many things, in particular emacs make error parsing,
but other uses are also possible.
Mike

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