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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Modula 2
Summary: I think changing the resource file is ok
Keywords: Modula 2 German idiom
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.042147.3225@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Nov 89 04:21:47 GMT
References: <8911150806.AA02970@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2066@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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 piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
In-reply-to: V053QHYX@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU

In article <8911150806.AA02970@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, V053QHYX@UBVMSC writes:
 `I just d/l'ed and unzood modula 2 from ftp terminator..its all in german?!
 `Can anyone translate it??I'll create a new resource file for it if I can find
 `smeone to translate it..I'm sure other users would like it also..!!

If you could read German, you would have noted that changing the resource
file is explicitly forbidden. At least it was in the first version (I will
look in the current).
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht

Sorry about the odd way of quoting. I'm learning a different newsreader, but
anyway, this is now saj speaking.
    I interpreted the notice the same way as Piet did.  I said something about
it to a native German friend, who couldn't understand what I was talking 
about.  He re-read it, and said that he could see why I read it that way, but
what it meant was that the authors of the compiler were absolutely not going
to provide translations of the documentation or the resource.  Of course
he's a pretty cheerful fellow by nature, but unless another German says 
otherwise, I think what we have here is an idiom.    
                               Steve J.