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Re: Translation of init scripts



On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 06:29:42PM -0300, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 06:11:11PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote:
> > A printf-like echo replacement would work for both, but would be
> > a pain to implement and yet another thing for maintainers to
> > learn/worry about.
> 
> 	We need not, printf(1) is part of shellutils already.

Macan, I love you :-)

`printf "Starting %s: %s" description daemon' does exactly what
we need. Of course, a gettext-ized version has to be hacked up.

Anyway, the point that it's another thing for maintainers to
learn/worry about sill holds.

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