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GENCAT(1) Debian GENCAT(1)

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.

Create C header file NAME containing symbol definitions
Do not use existing catalog, force new output file
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>.

November 2003 3rd Berkeley Distribution