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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MISSING: System 7
Message-ID: <1991May16.163619.14766@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 16 May 91 16:36:19 GMT
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In article <657736@neabbs.UUCP> pietsch@neabbs.UUCP (PIET SCHUERMANS) writes:
>In Europe the official version will be available on the 15 Aug 91.
>We have to wait again. But there is a Beta version available with some
>bugs.
>.
>Still Waiting P Schuermans.

Do you know what you are talking about? The international versions of
system 7 are in no way different from the american, EXCEPT that it has a
few more ADDITIONAL resources (INTL, itl0, itl1 and itl4 get one more; and
a new KCHR table) and all the texts are in your language.
(This might not be THAT accurate, so please correct me if I'm wrong)

So basically there are no betas with localization. You just take the us version,
add the resources I mentioned above, get a "international" CDEV and here it
goes. (You can grab both from 6.0.5 and later local systems)
I did that now 3 times in Germany (b1, b4 and final) and I haven't encountered
any problems. Any texts from Finder or system are in english, but I really
don't care...
The keyboard has german layout, the dates (and even the names of the days) and
times appear in proper german notation.
(Of course that is neither the official nor the recommended way to get a
localized system).

So, give up waiting, do a bit of hacking and go ahead... ;-)

Have fun. Now.

Oliver.