CATOPEN(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						CATOPEN(3)

NAME

     catopen -- open message catalog

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <nl_types.h>

     nl_catd
     catopen(const char *name, int oflag);

DESCRIPTION

     The catopen() function opens the message catalog specified by name and returns a message catalog descriptor.  If name contains a '/' then
     name specifies the full pathname for the message catalog, otherwise the value of the environment variable NLSPATH is used with the following
     substitutions:

     %N   The value of the name argument.

     %L   The value of the LANG environment variable or the LC_MESSAGES category (see below).

     %l   The language element from the LANG environment variable or from the LC_MESSAGES category.

     %t   The territory element from the LANG environment variable or from the LC_MESSAGES category.

     %c   The codeset element from the LANG environment variable or from the LC_MESSAGES category.

     %%   A single % character.

     An empty string is substituted for undefined values.

     Path names templates defined in NLSPATH are separated by colons (':').  A leading or two adjacent colons is equivalent to specifying %N.

     If the oflag argument is set to the NL_CAT_LOCALE constant, LC_MESSAGES locale category used to open the message catalog; using NL_CAT_LOCALE
     conforms to the X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4 (``XPG4'') standard.  You can specify 0 for compatibility with X/Open Portability Guide
     Issue 3 (``XPG3''); when oflag is set to 0, the LANG environment variable determines the message catalog locale.

     A message catalog descriptor remains valid in a process until that process closes it, or until a successful call to one of the exec(3) func-
     tion.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, catopen() returns a message catalog descriptor.  Otherwise, (nl_catd) -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate
     the error.

ERRORS

     [EINVAL]		Argument name does not point to a valid message catalog, or catalog is corrupt.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	An entire path to the message catalog exceeded 1024 characters.

     [ENOENT]		The named message catalog does not exists, or the name argument points to an empty string.

     [ENOMEM]		Insufficient memory is available.

SEE ALSO

     gencat(1), catclose(3), catgets(3), setlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The catopen() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

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								 February 12, 2005							       BSD