Opportunity for Amusement (Was: Blasted 8 digit error codes!)

[Steve Senator]

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Distribution: comp
Keywords: messages error valspeak
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Reply-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: not on Mondays

I'm surprised that no one has praised IBM yet for the facility to
create message catalogs at will.  It is not hard to create a 'valspeak'
message set for the shell-of-your-choice, for example.


 % how's tricks?
 How's tricks?: Like that's bogus syntax, dude? Where'd you go to skule?
 %

After all, the irony of IBM giving us the freedom to pick and *define*
what options we might like is fantastic.

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Steve Senator      sts%halley.uucp at cs.utexas.edu   512.244.8773