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From: av74381@korppi.tut.fi (Vesterinen Arto)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: All BBS's speak English??
Keywords: BBS,PD
Message-ID: <10973@etana.tut.fi>
Date: 1 Feb 90 14:05:54 GMT
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Reply-To: av74381@korppi.tut.fi (Vesterinen Arto)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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I have been running a local bbs on Atari ST for couple of years here
in Finland. Some of the BBS's youngest users don't speak English very well
and they have hard time understanding the functions of the bbs. 
I have used Steven Grimm's BB/ST and now my system runs  Michtron's Multiuser
BBS program. I have had good experience of both of these programs but
I would like to make things little easier for my users and get a Finnish
speaking BBS software. There are also other confusing things than language,
for example dates should be of form dd-mm-yy, not mm-dd-yy. Time
should be military time, not AM/PM form.

I don't know any commercial bbs programs which could
be translated TOTALLY (without serious hacking ;-) ) into another language. 

For best results I quess I should write my own piece of software, 
or port some PD bbs on my system.

If there exists any PD bbs software INCLUDING the source code (Citadel?), 
would you please e-mail me how to get these.


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