NEWS

GREGORY PIETSCH'S E-MAIL ADDRESS CHANGED

EWING, NEW JERSEY, February 13, 2005 - Gregory Pietsch's e-mail address has 
changed from GKP1@flash.net to gpietsch@comcast.net.

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EDLIN IN JAPANESE!

EWING, NEW JERSEY, September 4, 2004 - The edlin program now has support
for the Japanese language.

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EDLINE RENAMED TO EDLIN

EWING, NEW JERSEY, June 9, 2003 - Beginning with the new version 2.0, the
edline program has been renamed to edlin.

On Friday, June 6, 2003, Gregory Pietsch, the maintainer of FreeDOS edline,
received an e-mail from Jon Abrams, the president of Edline, LLC. His e-mail
address is <jabrams@edline.com>. Abrams requested that Pietsch modify the
name of the text editor so that it is no longer identical to the word "edline"
to avoid confusion.

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EDLINE PROGRAM INTERNATIONALIZATION

EWING, NEW JERSEY, May 30, 2003 - Internationalization for the edline program
is now a matter of translating strings in a header file.

All the outputted strings and format strings for printf() and friends are in
a file called msgs.h.  All the translator has to do is translate the strings
in that file into the language of choice.  The msgs.h file has been copied to
msgs-en.h, so that the English-language messages are saved.

I still have to figure out how to copy a specific language file to msgs.h at
compile time in the ./configure script, although this should be easy to do
(crosses fingers here).

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UNEMPLOYED PROGRAMMER NEEDS WORK

EWING, NEW JERSEY, March 3, 2003 - Gregory Pietsch, the author of the edline
line editor, is looking for a job. He has been out of work since June 2001
and his unemployment benefits have run out.

If you would like to hire Gregory, please send him a note at 
gpietsch@comcast.net.