Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:53:46 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-English user messages |
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>> I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation >> when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in >> manuals". > > > Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation > for every single message the software could emit was available. > > Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still > a staggering amount of information. I have ~300MB of Oracle > documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone. > Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one:
IMHO, it'd be better to just make the kernel error messages meaningful. Keeping a large pile of documentation in sync with the source is a PITA.
M.
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