Re: can't enter my email address

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

宋浩 wrote:
> msginit prompted for my email address. It gave me several candidate
> addresses, possibly obtained from my mail server configuration, and said, as
> I quoted here:
> 
> Please choose the number, or enter your email address.
> 
> But after I've entered the address I'd like to use (not one from the
> candidate list) and pressed enter, nothing happened. I pressed enter several
> times, but still nothing happened. I tried to signal a END-OF-FILE with
> Ctrl-D, still nothing. Then I didn't know what to do and killed the process
> with Ctrl-C.

Thank you for reporting this. After you entered your email address, the
program was trying to fetch a file from a translation project. In some cases
it would print a message such

  Retrieving http://translationproject.org/team/index.html...

but in other cases this is not done. When an internet connection is not
present for some reason, is appears like hanging. I am changing msginit
so that it will print this "Retrieving ..." line always, so that you know
what's going on.

Thanks for the report.

Bruno


2008-07-19  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * gnu/gettext/GetURL.java: Don't output anything to standard error.
        Instead, set exit code to indicate failure reason.
        * urlget.c (verbose): New variable.
        (long_options): Add --quiet, --silent option.
        (main): Implement --quiet, --silent option.
        (usage): Document --quiet, --silent option.
        (java_exitcode): New variable.
        (execute_it): Set it. Return false also when the exit code is 2.
        (fetch): Implement verbosity to standard error here.
        Reported by 宋浩 <address@hidden>.