BTW, *.EN files are very outdated.
Never touched an EN file in my life. Don't even know what they're for. See above about admin overhead.
They are part of NLS support, using the Cats or Kitten libraries to provide for message internationalization. The EN files are for the English language, and what most translator-volunteers use to create translations into other langauges.
Cats/Kitten is described at http://www.freedos.org/jhall/freedos/cats/
All your program's messages are stored in a file (called a message catalog), with message numbers and set numbers. "Hello world" might be message 1 in set 1. Your copyright statement might be message 2 in set 1. "Failure writing to drive A:" might be message 4 in set 7. Message catalogs are plain ascii files, so it will be easy for a user to take one "catalog" and create a translation that can immediately be used by another user (i.e. you don't need to "re-compile" the message catalog before you use it.)
This message catalog might look like this: (English)
FOO.EN
1.1:Hello world 7.4:Failure writing to drive A:
or: (Spanish)
FOO.ES
1.1:Hola mundo 7.4:Fallo al escribir en la unidad A:
-jh
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