Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel, am Sonntag, 18. Juli 2021 um 21:30 schrieben Sie:
> Hi, > Couple quick questions… > Is this a “(hopefully) ready-to-ship" version? Or, an intermediary > “ready-to-test (more changes/fixes coming)” version? > I’ve never examined the code. But, based on your email… All > someone needs to do to make a version of FreeCOM for another > language is “copy /b command.cln + strings.lng command.com” for > their language. That implies that all of the translation text is > just tacked onto the end. If so, it should be relatively easy to not > require splicing the language file onto the end. But, instead to > dynamically load it when the shell initializes using a new command > line option. Something the config.sys file would end up with something like: > shell=c:\fdos\bin\command.com c:\fdos\bin /e:2048 /p=c:\fdauto.bat /nls:de > Then when it starts, it could just load a command.de (or maybe > freecom.de) file from the c:\fdos\bin directory into that same memory > location. > Or possibly, include it as a full file/pathname. Then this > translations could live in the NLS directory along with the others. Like, > shell=c:\freedos\bin\command.com c:\freedos\bin /e:1024 > /p=c:\autoexec.bat /nls:c:\freedos\nls\command.es > You could even “bake-in” the default English translations and just > over-write it if the user specifies a different language. > I don’t foresee doing that as being very difficult and there would be > numerous benefits. your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like Norton/Volkow/Midnight Commander, make utilities, etc. that shell out to a new instance of command.com. they will start a new instance of %COMSPEC% with IMO no way of giving it any arguments, so you would run the english version instead of the localized one. I also see no 'numerous benefits'. a user that selects the dutch localized version is unlikely to change this dynamically to russian. no problem though to have this as *option*. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
