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On Monday 14 March 2005 23:43, Dustin Dettmer wrote:
> [quote]
> On platforms that have a text console (DOS and Unix)
> it will print the
> string to that console, attempting to work around
> codepage differences by
> reducing any accented characters to 7-bit ASCII
> approximations, and on
> platforms featuring a windowing system it will
> bring up a blocking GUI
> message box. Example:
> [/quote]
>
> Isn't this a bit misleading? It seems to me to say
> that if the OS has a terminal, text will be written
> out to it, else it will pop up a window. My
> understanding of how it works is the other way around,
> that it first tries the GUI popup and if that fails
> trys a terminal. I'd submit a patch but i still
> haven't figured out this patch stuff.
Yes. It used to be the other way around. Which reminds me that I never got
round to making this a configure option (I prefer the old behavior over
the popup window I get now).
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