Bad Advice
This is not really an error message, and I cannot easily copy it (as it comes up during the Windows 95 install procedure), but I thought it fits in well with your collection. Reproducing it is fairly easy, in my experience all you need to do is install Windows 95 on a machine with a Realtek 8029 PIC NIC and attempt to configure the network card at install time by clicking "have disk". It will prompt you to insert the Realtek driver disk in drive A:, you do so, and then it needs a couple of files from the Win95 cd, but the working directory has changed to A:\ so the next prompt that comes up is:
Please insert the disk labeled "Windows 95 installation CD" into drive A: and click OK to continue
I can't help imagining that someone somewhere who still has a 5.25" drive as A: may have actually done this. . .
Submitted by:
if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0)
{
printf("Don't Panic!\n");
exit(42);
}
I'll have to admit that this is also one of the stranger 'signatures' I've seen. On the other hand, if you think about it, it does make more sense than a lot of the error messages submitted.
<Previous: Quaking Upgrades>