Acorn Risc Technologies is pleased to announce that an abridged hard disc 
distribution image has been made available in beta to enable users to view 
almost all the text in the standard RISC OS desktop and applications in 
German. 

The distribution has had the Replay movies, JPEG images and tutorials, which 
ususally ship on the hard disc of a Risc PC, removed for reasons of space 
and predicted download time; the archive which is available occupies 5Mb, 
whereas an archive of an unabridged distribution would occupy 40MB for 
little extra benefit. 

This release is in beta form since Access+ and a small number of other 
message sets have yet to be translated; please forward comments on the 
standard of existing German translation to kbra...@art.acorn.co.uk 

The distribution may be downloaded from ftp.acorn.co.uk as a Spark 
archive; the file may be referenced as 
ftp.acorn.co.uk:/pub/riscos/releases/deutsch37beta.arc via anonymous ftp 

If you do not have access to SparkFS or SparkPlug with which to decompress 
this archive, a self-extracting copy of SparkPlug may be obtained as either 
ftp.acorn.co.uk:/pub/riscos/releases/dearchive.bas or 
http://www.art.acorn.co.uk/ftp/riscos/releases/dearchive.bas ; this file 
should be *SETTYPEd to BASIC and then run. 

To install the distribution, the !Boot, Apps, Diversions, Printing, Public 
and Utilities directories from the English hard disc distribution should be 
copied into a new directory and the abridged German distribution copied into 
the root directory on the hard disc which the system boots from; the 
computer should then be configured for German conventions by issuing 

*configure territory germany 

and rebooting. 

Regards, 

ART Engineering Support