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gencat(1)

Generate message catalog

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 <[email protected]>.

History

--header since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --new since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --output since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -H since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -o since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

-h until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -lang until Debian 1.3 (Bo); -new until Debian 1.3 (Bo).