Guest login - en francais!

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:45:04 -0300
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: csuite-french@chebucto.ns.ca
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This was kinda messed up.  Guest login is now completely in English and
login "visiteur" is (almost) completely in French.

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Clive Bagley wrote:

> 
> Hi, Robert:
> 
> I had not realized how far along the french version of Chebucto was, 
> until the recent announcement.  Great news!
> 
> I often demonstrate Chebucto to potential new users.  After logging in to
> my own account, and showing people some of the features, I usually show
> them that they can log in as 'guest' even if they do not yet have an
> account of their own. 
> 
> Earlier today, I was asked if it is possible to log in as 'guest' and see
> the french version.  I did not think it was possible, but we tried it.  To
> my surprise, what we got was a mixture - we were given the MOTD (Message
> of the Day) in french, followed by the Chebucto Home Page in english - a 
> bit confusing!  Is this intentional, or just a minor mistake somewhere?  
> This is reproducible, it happens each time you log in as 'guest'.  If you 
> later type 'gmotd', you always see the english version.
> 
> After thinking it over, I thought it would that be a nice feature if we
> could we offer a choice of English/French when logging in as 'guest'.  It
> would be very attractive to be able to offer potential new Chebucto users
> access either the French or English version. 
> 
> I cannot speak French at all, but I used to be able to read it fairly 
> well, perhaps I will now have the opportunity to improve my reading, 
> right here on Chebucto!
>  
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>   | CCN Team Leader for |        CHEBUCTO        |   Day or Night    |
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> 
> 
> 
> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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