A Summary of Commands

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Abbreviations

It is possible to translate common abbreviations. The -Aoption controls this behavior. Abbreviations and acronyms can be translated using a translation script. The feature is turned on with the -Acs abbreviations option. It can be forced off, if enabled via the environment variable, via the -A a option.

The file abbreviations is the source of the translations. Translations is done in one of two forms, "simple", denoted by s, or "complex", denoted by c. In simple translation mode, each abbreviation found in a message is translated directly to the specified alternate form in the abbreviations file. In complex mode, each abbreviation found is translated into "translation (abbreviation)". For example, if the translation was:

btw = "by the way"

and the message was:

btw, an error occurred

in "simple" translation mode, the message would be printed as:

by the way, an error occurred

while in "complex" translation mode, the message would be printed as:

by the way (btw), an error occurred

All translations are done by WholeWord. If the WholeWord does not match the acronym, then no translation takes place.

An abbreviations file is a file containing two word couplets. Any line beginning with a pound sign character (#) is ignored and all blank lines are

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