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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:11:10 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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Subject: Re: NLS and djgpp.env
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> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:06:38 +0200
> 
> Yes, it is true. The goal was to make the radme files writing easier.
> It is easier to explain that some particular env. variable in djgpp.env should
> be changed than explaining to create a new one. IMHO, for a newbie changing
> an existing entry in some file is easier than trying to create a new entry after
> having found the appropiate section.

That might be so, and yet we are asking users to set PATH and DJGPP
nonetheless.  Assuming that they've survived that traumatic
experience, I think we can expect them to be able to do the same for
LANG and other related variables.

Perhaps you should mention in the README that these variables are set
in the same manner as they did for the DJGPP variable.

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