Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!dbh From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Acorn's senseless exploitations (was: PlaceIt 1.10) Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 10:22:33 GMT References: <6691@acorn.co.uk> Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: osmith@acorn.co.uk's message of 25 Apr 91 13:32:34 GMT In article <6691@acorn.co.uk> osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) writes: >I believe >this is a sorry state of affairs, and Acorn should make MessageTrans more >widely available to encourage people to internationalise their software. A >good start would be to post the version on the release 2 printer drivers to >comp.binaries.acorn. I'd post it myself but I'm not sure I'm allowed to. Sounds like a sackable offence - posting liscenced software into the PD! >Impression release 2 >and Impression Junior do have Messages files which seem to be in MessageTrans >format, but you try finding the MessageTrans module anywhere on the disk. I >believe Computer Concepts has their own variant. Yes, some applications just use a few lines of Basic to parse the file and do substitutions, pretty easy in ARM code too I reckon. It seems to me that Acorn could well make more money from this sort of thing by giving it away than by selling it. -- Denis Howe C-C H558A Imperial College London C-C-C +44 (71) 589 5111 x5064 N=N