Error messages
Sakari Jalovaara
sja at sirius.hut.fi
Fri Mar 29 01:37:41 AEST 1991
> "The file %s could not be found. Please check file permissions."
Preferably only if the problem _is_ file permissions...
I prefer
~ (sirius) 4265> cat /etc/ypbind.lock
cat: /etc/ypbind.lock: Permission denied
over
~ (leka) 302> cat /etc/security/passwd
cat: cannot open /etc/security/passwd
though if I wrote "cat" it would say
cat: can't open file "/etc/security/passwd" for reading: Permission denied
(program - object - operation - reason.)
> users in Germany would prefer to get their errors auf Deutsche, nicht
> English.
Ja - aber nicht alle. I wouldn't want messages in my native Finnish.
Translations of technical texts are often bad, the terminology is less
stabilized (often non-existent), program names and input to programs
is based on English and 3rd party programs will still speak English
for a long time to come. These show painfully well on the Macintosh.
$LANG is ok; it gives a choice.
++
"NO INFORMATION IN THIS SENTENCE."
- TELL-A-GRAF
++sja
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