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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: New L10N boot floppy for 2.1.5-RELEASE 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 1996 19:31:47 +0930."
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 03:00:23 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Use a translation-oriented catalog lookup; ie. something like :

Why not something even more abbreviated?

ret = msgDialog("msg#ftp_error", "an error occurred retreiving %s",
                filename);

Let the internals handle at all, with you passing in the fall-back
string (and, not coincidently, making the statement readable again).

						Jordan