Telegard Bulletin Board Software, v3.10
Language Change Documentation
Copyright (C) 1998 by Tim Strike
All Rights Reserved.
Language changes from 3.09.g2 to 3.09.g2-sp3:
In order to preserve any changes you have made to your language
files, you must update your languages appropriately using the text
provided. This upgrade has not been automated because the changes
you have made to your language file might not be recognizable by
our parser, and subsequently your language file would not be
preserved.
It will take some time to update your languages; remember that you
must update each of the languages on your system. The general
instructions are as follows:
1) Update your languages with the text below
2) Recompile your languages with MAKELANG
3) Repeat for other languages . . .
There is a way to speed up the update of your language files, but
it has some drawbacks.
1) If you added comments, they will be lost -- HOWEVER, the
comments will now match the master ENGLISH.TXT exactly!
2) It can only process the language additions and removals,
not changes. Changes are too subtle for my AI
programming skills.
That said, if you want to cut down slightly on your work, try:
1) Backup your current languages
2) Unpack the release ENGLISH.TXT into a temporary
directory ('UNPACK LANGUAGE.TWS \TEMP\')
3) Rename \TEMP\ENGLISH.TXT to a different filename,
something like \TEMP\MASTER.TXT
4) Copy MASTER.TXT into your language directory
5) Run MAKELANG <language> -M MASTER, which will create
<language>.NEW as a resultant file
6) Edit <language>.NEW, and update the lines which
LANGUAGE.SP3 has updated.
7) When satisfied, rename <language>.NEW to <language>.TXT
8) Recompile <language> with MAKELANG
9) Repeat 5, 6, 7 & 8 for other languages . . .
The MAKELANG -M feature will add new lines, and remove unused lines,
will update the comments in the language.
ADDED
The following strings have been added to your language file. The
comments surrounding the new additions should be included (comments
preceed the entries they are associated with).
; 338: New user name, should not contain spaces/colours (case insensitive)
0338 NEW
; 344: Password prompt reset string (usually blank...)
0344
; 1229: Save complete (1235); defaults to erase prompt, use "Done~SM" or whatever else
1229 ~EI18{<~S#~SI~SH}*~S#~SI
CHANGED
The following entries have been changed. The comments before the
entries indicate the reason the entries were changed, so that you
can update your entries appropriately. If entries were replaced
with different text, the comment is "Replaced text".
; Replaced text
0156 Other country
; Updated to reflect new handling (NEW -> ~&1)
; 341-342: &1 New user name (line 338), &9 logon attempts
0341 `07Enter your alias, real name or enter "`0E~&1`07" to log on as a new user.
; Added leading ~SM
1179 ~SM`09Toggle flags (?=Help) : `0B