From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 30 06:36:31 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA01198 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:36:31 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01190 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:36:19 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA03929 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:36:10 -0700 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/src/usr.bin/ee Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:36:10 -0700 Message-ID: <3927.809789770@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Something else about it most people probably haven't noticed: It's one of our first (only?) applications to install a specific message catalog for itself. This means that you can have versions of ee that are friendly to more than U.S. users - you can have the help screens and menus come up in anything from French to Croatian. In fact, since ee will be one of the first apps a user sees in FreeBSD's installation (anytime editing of a configuration file is requested) I would actively encourage any suitably motivated translators to do so. /usr/src/usr.bin/ee/nls/en_US.ISO_8859-1/ee.msg contains the english language messages.. It's also a reasonable example of how to do this in your own application and the only working example of `gencat' and its input format that I know of. Jordan