Re: Error mesg does not give me a clue ...

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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Auh, I would agree but you must have missed him say that he looked in the locale file and it wasn't there!

Barry

Thompson-Jordan wrote:

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> I think if Minivend generated any message in a language other than I had
> told it to, I would look in locale.asc first and then "grep" around to
> find the text. I doubt that Minivend just got bored with English and
> decided to toss in a little German to spice things up :-) The problem with
> computers is that the darn things do _exactly_ what you tell them to do.
> It's irritating.
>
> Christopher Thompson
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Barry Treahy
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 12:12 PM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: Re: Error mesg does not give me a clue ...
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
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> >
> > Sorry Birgitt, but I disagree with your statements.
> >
> > The original poster implied that they did not understand the
> > message, posting the sample in German, and perhaps
> > an incorrect assumption on my part, but I assumed that for
> > starters he did not understand German.  Since most
> > postings on this list are in english I assumed, again, that if
> > he did understand German, we would have atleast
> > translated the text of the message to english so that a broader
> > audience could aid him.  Having an error message
> > that cannot be read is of no help.  All I was attempting to do,
> > was to give him a easy to use resource for
> > converting his messages from German to English.  Other than
> > your critique of my message, I haven't seen anyone
> > else post for this persons problem.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> >
> > Birgitt Funk wrote:
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk
> > <birgitt@minivend.com>     ******
> > >
> > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Barry Treahy wrote:
> > >
> > > > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
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> > > >
> > > > I attempted to run Unterbrechung through
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and received the work
> > > Interruption... May I suggest you take the entire error message and
> run it through the language translator?
> > > It may help to know what the message reads...
> > >
> > > Barry
> >
> > That is definitely NOT the method trying to understand error messages.
> >
> > It's one thing to have a lot of confused questions to deal with, it's
> > another to answer with something leading to more confusion. And
> > Babelfish' translation would do a great job in exactly that.
> >
> > Well meant, but not advisable.
> >
> > Birgitt Funk
> >
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