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GENCAT

Section: Debian (1)
Updated: November 2003
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NAME

gencat - Generate message catalog

SYNOPSIS

gencat [OPTION...] -o OUTPUT-FILE [INPUT-FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

The gencat program is specified in the X/Open standard and the GNU implementation follows this specification and so processes all correctly formed input files. Additionally some extension are implemented which help to work in a more reasonable way with the catgets(3) functions.

-H, --header NAME: Create C header file NAME containing symbol definitions
--new: Do not use existing catalog, force new output file
-o, --output NAME: Write output to file NAME

AUTHOR

gencat was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.

This man page was written by Jeff Bailey <jbailey@debian.org>.

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