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> What was even the difference between Abort and Fail? A whole generation of computer users has wondered this. According to Wikipedia[1], "abort" aborted the
by deathanatos 3y ago
> What was even the difference between Abort and Fail?
A whole generation of computer users has wondered this.
According to Wikipedia[1], "abort" aborted the program (terminated it), and "fail" returned an error code to the program. (Which … probably has a high likelihood of killing it all the same, since a given random I/O is probably pretty non-optional.)
Wikipedia also notes,
> the message has been cited as an example of poor usability in computer user interfaces.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F
- epcoa 3y agoIn DOS the infamous Abort, Retry, (Ignore), Fail was the default handling of "critical errors". Abort would terminate immediately, and fail would return control to the program with an error code. You could override this however: https://web.archive.org/web/20100206220048/http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/DOS/ch19/CH19-2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100206220048/http://webster.cs...
- Waterluvian 3y agoAhhh. I remember as a kid playing some game and sometimes this would come up. We learned that Fail would allow the game to keep running but the background for the scene simply didn’t appear (I guess that I/O was optional).