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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:
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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.