Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:09:09 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: CVS stuff Message-ID: <9501172109.AA24927@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9501170649.AA25712@cs.weber.edu> References: <9501170353.AA23687@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9501170649.AA25712@cs.weber.edu>
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<<On Mon, 16 Jan 95 23:49:20 MST, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said: > What does siting message by number have to do with not citing message > by English Message Text? !a => b? That's a logical fallacy. Because if you're trying to figure out what the !@#$%^ is wrong when somebody complains, you need to know what the REAL message is. You can either put the messages in English, so that everybody understands, or you can stick on message numbers. > It makes no sense to be able to display Russian, for instance, if none > of the data on the system is Russian text! If you want some Russian text, you go into your editor and generate it. I'm certain that Andrew has lots of Russian text. This does not mean that it is a good idea to have system programs printing out messages in languages which are not understood by the program maintainers. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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