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In article <51400005@uokvax.UUCP> emjej@uokvax.UUCP writes:
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>/* Written  7:19 am  Dec 11, 1985 by lamy@utai.UUCP in net.internat */
>Translating error messages: Ok. What about a french version of the infamous
>"bad magic number".
>/* End of text from net.internat */
>
>I'd say one should take advantage of the opportunity and do a French version
>of what the error message should have been all along, i.e. something like
>"not a .o file for this processor." 

Aaah, but that does not cover the scope of errors covered by `bad magic
number' which can also tell you that you are trying to load a library
module from a file that is not a library and various other things.  `Bad
magic number' says it all for me,  but what I would like to see instead
is an on-line program to explain errors (perhaps in more than one
language).

>If one of the results of international-
>ization is the elimination of cretinous messages like "bad magic number,"
>it deserves support from even the most isolationist of users.
>
>					James Jones


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