Re: interesting /. story on RPG

Simon,

Please pardon me for being stupid, but would you elaborate a little on
what you are saying here? It looks as if the point is to avoid CPF9898 and
instead use more specific message ids . . . ? Is that what you're getting
at, or is it something else?

Thanks!

midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
>This
...
> is impossible to make NLS aware because all the messages are
>imbedded in code.  Of course, with some small amount of programming effort
>they could be externalised but Unix doesn't seem to have any standard way
>of externalising messages.  Everybody has to do it themselves.
>
>Mind you the AS/400 programmers who imbed
>
>       SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9898) MSGDTA("Error occurred')
>or
>       SNDPGMMSG MSG("Bad things happened")
>
>are equally guilty of being stupid and shortsighted.



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