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+# British English messages for GNU tar
+# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>, 2003.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: GNU tar 1.13.25\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bug-tar@gnu.org\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2003-07-04 00:11-0700\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2003-07-04 00:11-0700\n"
+"Last-Translator: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>\n"
+"Language-Team: English <en@translate.freefriends.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: lib/getopt.c:838 lib/getopt.c:841
+#, c-format
+msgid "%s: unrecognized option `--%s'\n"
+msgstr "%s: unrecognised option `--%s'\n"
+
+#: lib/getopt.c:849 lib/getopt.c:852
+#, c-format
+msgid "%s: unrecognized option `%c%s'\n"
+msgstr "%s: unrecognised option `%c%s'\n"
+
+# POSIX requires the word "illegal" in the POSIX locale, but the error
+# is not really against the law. This is not the POSIX locale, so fix
+# the wording.
+#: lib/getopt.c:899 lib/getopt.c:902
+#, c-format
+msgid "%s: illegal option -- %c\n"
+msgstr "%s: unrecognised option `-%c'\n"
+
+# POSIX requires the word "illegal" in the POSIX locale, but the error
+# is not really against the law. This is not the POSIX locale, so fix
+# the wording.
+#: lib/getopt.c:908 lib/getopt.c:911
+#, fuzzy, c-format
+msgid "%s: invalid option -- %c\n"
+msgstr "%s: unrecognised option `-%c'\n"