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Subject: Re: Alternate help file?
From: tom @ incolsa . net (Tom Metzger)
Organization: Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:09:56 -0500 (EST)
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In-reply-to: <19990915101423.D12142@chamber.dna.fi> from "Mikko Hänninen" at Sep 15, 1999 10:14:23 AM
Reply-to: tom @ incolsa . net (Tom Metzger)

On Wed Sep 15 02:14:23 1999, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikko_H=E4nninen?= wrote:
=> Tom Metzger <tom@incolsa.net> wrote on Tue, 14 Sep 1999:
=> > Is it
=> > possible to setup an alternate "help" file that can be sent back to people
=> > in Russian instead of the default English?  i.e. can I add a command to
=> > Majordomo's vocabulary like "help-russ" that will send the Russian version
=> > of the help file instead?
=> 
=> You can't do this simply with standard majordomo configuration, you need
=> to modify the source code.  But if you are (or know someone who is)
=> fluent in perl, it shouldn't be *that* difficult...   (Says he, who
=> doesn't have to do it himself :-)

The answer came to me last night on my commute home (as most good ideas do).
It's not the cleanest way, surely, but it will work.  I'll put the help file
in their archive folder.  Then they just send "get ral russianhelp" to get
the Russian version.  Beauty, eh?

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