The PROMSGS file contains OpenEdge run-time messages in a particular language. Each PROMSGS file has a file extension named after the language and resides in a directory named after the language. For example, the French PROMSGS file, promsgs.fre, resides in the OpenEdge/prolang/fre directory, and the Italian PROMSGS file, promsgs.ita, resides in the OpenEdge/prolang/ita directory.

OpenEdge supplies a PROMSGS file for each language it supports. When you package an international application, be sure to supply the PROMSGS files your customers need. When you configure an international application, you can tell OpenEdge which PROMSGS file to use by using one of the following techniques:

• By setting a value for PROMSGS in the [Startup] section of the progress.ini file
• By setting the PROMSGS environment variable