Re: "unable to open file '%s'" or "unable to open the file '%s'"?
Hi Justin,
On 2012-02-25 10:40, Justin B Rye wrote:
[...]
> $cmd is unable to open the file '%s'.
> $cmd is unable to close the directory '%s'.
> The file '%s' does not exist.
>
> It's conventional to cut down messages like this into a sort of note
> form, and once you've dropped the subject it's only moving a bit
> further into telegraphic English to drop the articles. I would
> probably include the articles myself, but if there were already error
> messages that left them out I would follow that existing style.
Understood, thanks.
> http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/linux/esl.html#c2
Thanks, didn't see this page before.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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