Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:07:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: YESCHAR
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:

> The solution to useability questons is often not bloat (although that
> often comes up as teh first option), but simply good design.  For
> example, a minicomputer system I worked on years ago had a seperate
> messages file which could be substituted, and *most* system commands
> used these messages.  In the DOS situation I'd imagine that there would

Now that's a good idea, have no messages in the kernel or command
processor itself, have it in an external 'country.lng' file.  One of the
boot procedures could initialize the messages normally kept in memory for
OS use, (abort, retry, fail, or fire the sucker;), and it could also
contain a keyboard remap table.  Hence, at _boot_ the country is selected.