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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: All BBS's speak English??
Keywords: BBS,PD
Message-ID: <10000@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 90 03:46:39 GMT
References: <10973@etana.tut.fi>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <10973@etana.tut.fi> av74381@korppi.tut.fi (Vesterinen Arto) writes:
>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 would like to make things little easier for my users and get a Finnish
>speaking BBS software. 
>I don't know any commercial bbs programs which could
>be translated TOTALLY (without serious hacking ;-) ) into another language. 
>If there exists any PD bbs software INCLUDING the source code (Citadel?), 
>would you please e-mail me how to get these.

    The next version of Fido will be multi-lingual.  You will be
able to port it to any language you want via text configuation
files.  This will include "ANSI" (note quotes) escape sequences
to paint different colour text and graphics.  

    As soon as it comes out, I will upload it to SIMTEL.  Look
for "Fido 12s".

	    Tim

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