[Freedos-devel] Need help with Kitten library

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

I'm a bit embarrassed to ask about this, since I wrote the Kitten
library. But it's been a very long time since I used Kitten, and I'm
having trouble using Kitten in a simple program.


Ercan asked me for help adding Kitten multi-language support to his
DOS Coreutils. As a test, I wrote this example program:


/* test.c */

#include <stdio.h>
#include "kitten.h"

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   char *s;
   kittenopen("test");
   s = kittengets(1, 1, "Hello world");
   puts(s);
   kittenclose();
}


And I have a separate TEST.TR file that contains a test string:

1.1:If you can read this, Kitten lookup worked


But when I set LANG=TR and NLSPATH to the location of the TEST.TR
file, the program only prints "Hello world".

I'm using Kitten-c from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/cats/

I don't get any errors in compiling using OpenWatcom.

Maybe someone who has used Kitten more recently than I have can spot the error?