Eric Auer escreveu:
> I found a binary copy of a Brazilian Portuguese freecom
> command.com (ca 11/2005 or older) in my archives... This
> is, as far as I remember, from Alain or Henrique who lost
> his source text file...

That was me :) all my machines were stolen the same weekend :(

>  So I extracted all text strings
> from the binary, preserving the accented chars in the DOS
> codepage they were written in :-).

It was codepage 850, one of the big fixes because the former translation 
was pure ascii

>  If anybody wants to
> have a look, I can send you the 10 kB zip file. To turn
> it into a compileable file again, you have to take the
> ca 250 :TEXT_... and :PROMPT_... labels from a message
> file of another translation and insert them at the right
> places in the right order. Probably relatively simple,
> as the order of strings should not have changed much over
> time. You still need some proof-reading to check where
> messages changed or new ones got introduced, but it would
> be nice to have at least a raw Brazilian version again.
> I hope somebody likes the idea :-).

I do :) I just didn't get it right: do you mean that it can be compiled 
again in the same standard way ?

Thanks, *VERY MUCH*
Alain


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