Hello Archie!

*** 20.10.03 at 11:58, Archie Swan wrote to Martin Foster:

 AS> You wrote to Christian Boettger on 19.10.03 about "new beta
 AS> Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

 AS> [hack]
 MF>> I fire up OpenXP in English and then select
 MF>> "Config/Options/Language" and I'm presented with a *single*
 MF>> choice -> "Deutsch". If I then select
"Deutsch", the language
 MF>> does in fact change to German. However, if I then select
 MF>> "Config/Options/Language" again, OpenXP reports
"No language
 MF>> files found?!". This is very odd because OPENXP-D.RES and
 MF>> OPENXP-E.RES are most definitely there in my OpenXP directory.
 MF>> This is a problem which I've had for a long time with the Win32
 MF>> version but Markus doesn't seem to be able to reproduce the
 MF>> problem?

 AS> Confirmed here Martin.  I get, probably, precisely the same as
 AS> you've found.

Many thanks indeed for confirming that, I was beginning to think I'd  
missed something.

 AS> The slight difference being that in my case, I fired it up as an
 AS> absolute "newby" - i.e. I didn't use the Commandline switch.

Yep, same here, in fact, I never use the "/l" switch as I find it to be  
totally unnecessary.

 AS> It then, on start-up offered me the choice of Language, showing a
 AS> default "D" which I changed to "E", which was accepted.

Yep, same here.

 AS> I then did a partial config and then Quit.
 AS> On the re-start, I then went into Config/Options/Language when I
 AS> accepted the Deutsch offering and OXP accepted that choice OK.
 AS> When then attempting to change back to English, I got the same
 AS> "No language files found?!" warning :((

Yep, exactly the same here.

 AS> I've not tried it yet - *but* - could it be possible that a SET
 AS> command is needed in the DOS Autoexec.bat file, and/or the Win32
 AS> OXP's directory needs to be in the Path statement ??

Don't think so.

 AS> Alternatively, for the pure plug 'n play Win9x folks - could it
 AS> be a case of Registry changes being needed ??

AFAIK, nothing is written to the Registry, BICBW about that.

Regards,
Martin

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