Jeff Kell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:33:53 -0500 John Caruso said:
: >>>Hewlett Packard MPE-XL
: >>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: >>>MPE XL:
: >>>EXPECTED A :HELLO COMMAND. (CIERR 6057)
: >>>MPE XL:
: >>>EXPECTED [SESSION NAME,] USER.ACCT [,GROUP]   (CIERR 1424)
: >>>MPE XL:
 
: In the "good old days" this didn't happen.  I, for one, don't like the
: fancy hand-holding messages during logon, and they're getting worse.
: Now it practically TELLS you how to break in.
 
: I used to patch catalog.pub.sys to take that out, but haven't tried
: recently.  There are so many different messages to patch over!  The
: error numbers listed above are correct, but there are also "Expected
: account name (CIERR 10130)" and many others.  Anyone happen to have
: a command file or editor XEQ to "replace" these messages?
 
I contributed something called CATFIX to the Las Vegas swap tape several
years ago. It merged a file of replacement messages in with the real
system message catalog, by EDITOR line number. (The message catalog was
not renumbered with each new release, so this was not a problem. Also,
CATFIX numbered a line that, for many years, wasn't.)
 
I don't know whether or not the line numbers have changed since then.
 
--Glenn Cole
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