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	Manuel Guerrero on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:03:15 +0200)
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> Inspecting the cvs repository I was not able to figure out why the
> DJGPP error message strings have been designed this way.

They make the developer's job easier.

> Due to the repeating difficulties that the current version of these
> strings cause

If a test requires a specific wording of a human-readable error
message to be the same across operating systems, the test is broken.
I see no reason to change these messages.