Re: Please commit to help the translators (was: What is IPL ?)
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
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> #. TRANS: IPL (Initial Program Load) means "boot" in mainframe context and
> #. DASD can be viewed as a hard disk. Please don't translate these terms
> #: bootconfig.c:1557
> [...]
> This is the regular way for the programmer to say something to the
> translators without direct interaction.
>
> (for the curious, it works because in the makefile, xgettext is called with
> the argument "--add-comments=TRANS")
>
> I'm not very sure of what "DASD" means, so I let a S390 correct my
> explanation and commit that...
The acronym stands for Direct-Access Storage Device. It refers to a class
of secondary storage devices typically used on mainframe systems. For
translation purposes, it is interchangeable with "disk" or "storage array".
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- mdz
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