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- Short: Amiga catalog tester, v1.0
- Author: Sönke Tesch <soenke@kino-fahrplan.de>
- Type: dev/misc
-
- catcheck is a tool to test catalog files. Catalog files are used on the Amiga
- by applications to display strings in your native language rather than only a
- fixed build-in like English.
-
- catcheck finds a large number of common and not so common errors (which can
- be quiet annoying:). While most of these errors are human-made, there are
- also some that have their origin in buggy catalog compilers. An exotic
- example is the #lengthbytes command, which is, to my knowledge, only
- supported by C='s own catalog compiler, catcomp. All other compilers
- either complain about an unsupported command or, even worse, ignore
- it completely and produce somewhat unusable catalogs.
-
- The most common human-made errors are:
-
- - missing or removed strings,
- - wrong placement or order of arguments (%s, %1$s and that stuff),
- - use of escaped characters like \", \n etc and the string-continues-
- on-next-line-marker backslash.
-
-
- catcheck has been written during the development of AmigaOS 3.5 in late
- 1999 and turned out to be by far more useful than I expected. It's been
- improved since then and also been used during AmigaOS 3.9 development.
-
-
- This is the first public release. Although catcheck has been in use for
- more than a year now, there might be a few little bugs left here and
- there. But it runs stable and is not one of those beta or even alpha
- versions that have been released quite often in the last months..
-
- Hope you like it,
- soenk.e
-
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