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- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.220938.3268@nic.csu.net>
- From: oleg@gd. (Oleg Kibirev)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:09:37 PST
- Sender: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
- References: <1992Nov14.145943.1288@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Nov16.234721.3224@nic.csu.net> <1992Nov18.022127.130@global.hacktic.nl>
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- In article <1992Nov18.022127.130@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >oleg@gd (I) write
- >
- >>>figure out which verbose message belongs to that number. That saves several K's
- >>>of text for each program and makes translation to foreign langauges much
- >>>easier. The user who uses such a tool gradually learns to associate the terse
- >>I suppose you have heard about shared libraries ;-).
- >
- >Yes, but a text file is much easier to edit than a shared library...
- >
- Well, it's not *that* hard to edit a shared library, it least in SunOS. Check
- README in /usr/lib/shlib.etc. H/o why not having errno.c check /etc/sys_errlist
- and $HOME/.sys_errlist to override defaults. This would make customization of
- error messages much easier...
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- Oleg
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