errorprompts.h

Hardwired fatal error messages.

Megistos is almost completely configurable. Because there are almost no strings hardwired to the binaries, fatal error reporting is a tricky business. We solve this problem by hard-wiring two prompts into the system: those issued to a user to notify them of fatal and non-fatal errors.

The two messages here are conditionally compiled based on the GREEK symbol. This is just selfish, really, but we like to be able to have code that compiles and incorporates into our existing BBS with minimal hassle. This solution is very inelegant. I'm investigating a better, possibly multilingual one. It's likely we can just read these messages off a message prompt file at compilation time and store one set per supported language.

Original banner, legalese and change history follow.

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 **  FILE:     errorprompts.h                                               **
 **  AUTHORS:  Alexios                                                      **
 **  REVISION: A, July 94                                                   **
 **  PURPOSE:  Define hard-wired user-friendly no-nonsense no-more-hyphens  **
 **            error messages for use with errors.c                         **
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 * $Id: errorprompts.h,v 1.3 2001/04/22 14:49:04 alexios Exp $
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 * $Log: errorprompts.h,v $
 * Revision 1.3  2001/04/22 14:49:04  alexios
 * Merged in leftover 0.99.2 changes and additional bug fixes.
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 * Revision 0.2  1997/11/06 20:03:39  alexios
 * Added GPL legalese to the top of this file.
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 * Revision 0.1  1997/08/26 15:48:53  alexios
 * First registered revision. Adequate.
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ERRORMESSAGE

Hard-wired, non-fatal error message.

FATALMESSAGE

Hard-wired, fatal error message.

Author:

Alexios

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