Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:41:46 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510160111.KAA05393@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510160006.UAA06783@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 08:06:30 pm
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Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying: > >The > > extensive (i.e. blatant) use of message catalogs (AIX, IRIX) leads to > > very undesirable results, e.g. SMTP daemons throwing their error > > messages in German. :-( > > It's hard for me to know how something like smtpd would get its locale > set to de_DE in order to do that, but I wonder if that wouldn't be what > I'd want if I were in Germany. I'll second that 8) The AIX/OS2 etc standard of "(reference) message" is still my favorite - the messages are usually verbose and at least vaguely informative, and the numbers mean that when a luser is reading it to you over the 'phone, that's all you need, coz you can look it up locally. (And thus it doesn't matter what language the message is in, because you can regenerate it at will with the catalog lookup tool) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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