Hi Ralf, >> But for a modern DOS that needs to support different languages by >> different users in different countries, I think language catalogs (the >> "Kitten" method) provide the best solution. > > Well, the problem is that this can increase the size of a lot of > executables by a lot. And being DOS afterall, executables space is still > at a premium...
If we would streamline the build process for most of the FreeDOS tools, creating per-language binaries will be a breeze. Or we do it the 1990s way: Translators patching English binaries with a hex editor... (Requires un- and repacking with UPX.) Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel