Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide

Sample Messages

These are examples of original messages and rewritten messages. The rewritten message follows each original message.

AFLGKEYLTRS "Too Many -a Keyletters (Ad9)"  
AFLGKEYLTRS "foo: 7777-007 Use the -a flag less than 11 times.\n"  

FLGTWICE "Flag %c Twice  (Ad4)"  
FLGTWICE "foo: 7777-004 Use the %c header flag once.\n"  

ESTAT "can't access %s.\n"  
ESTAT "foo: 7777-031 Cannot find or access %s.\n"  

EMODE "foo: invalid mode\n"  
EMODE "foo: 7777-033 A mode flag or value is not correct.\n"  

DNORG "-d has no argument  (ad1)"  
DNORG "foo: 7777-001 Specify a parameter after the -d flag.\n"  

FLOORRNG "floor out of range  (ad23)"  
FLOORRNG "foo: 7777-021 Specify a floor value greater than 0\n\  
\tand less than 10000.\n"  

AFLGARG "bad -a argument  (ad8)"  
AFLGARG "foo: 7777-006 Specify a user name, group name, or\n\  
\tgroup number after the -a flag.\n"  

BADLISTFMT "bad list format  (ad27)"  
BADLISTFMT "foo: 7777-025 Use numeric version and release\ 
\tnumbers.\n"