dumpmsg(1)                                                       dumpmsg(1)

NAME
     dumpmsg - generate a message source file from a message catalog (dump
     message)

SYNOPSIS
     dumpmsg [-C] catfile msgfile

DESCRIPTION
     dumpmsg reads a binary coded message catalog from a file or from stan-
     dard input and generates readable message source text from it. The
     dumped message text is written to a file or to standard output.

     dumpmsg outputs only the messages, not the associated delimiting char-
     acters (e.g. double quotes).

OPTIONS
     -C   Characters not included in the ASCII character set are output as
          octal numbers in the form \xxx.

     catfile
          Name of the file containing the X/Open-style binary coded message
          catalog.

          If you use a dash (-) as the name for catfile, dumpmsg reads from
          standard input.

     msgfile
          Name of the file to which the message text is to be written.

          If you use a dash (-) as the name for msgfile, dumpmsg writes to
          standard output.

LOCALE
     The LCMESSAGES environment variable governs the language in which
     message texts are displayed. If LCMESSAGES is undefined or is defined
     as the null string, it defaults to the value of LANG. If LANG is like-
     wise undefined or null, the system acts as if it were not internation-
     alized.

     The LCALL environment variable governs the entire locale. LCALL
     takes precedence over all the other environment variables which affect
     internationalization.

EXAMPLES
     The message source file hallo.msf is generated by calling extract.
     From this file the gencat command then generates the binary coded mes-
     sage catalog hallo.cat. Then dumpmsg is called to write the messages
     in the catalog in readable form to standard output (as indicated by
     the dash -):






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     $ cat hallo.c
     main()
     {
       printf("Hello world!");
     }

     $ extract hallo.c
     ...

     $ gencat hallo.cat hallo.msf
     $ dumpmsg hallo.cat -
     $set 1

     1 Hello world!

SEE ALSO
     gencat(1), extract(1).





































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