insertmsg(1)						      General Commands Manual						      insertmsg(1)

NAME

       insertmsg - use findstr(1) output to insert calls to catgets(3C)

SYNOPSIS

       stringlist

DESCRIPTION

       examines  the  file  stringlist, which is assumed to be the output of after subsequent editing to remove any strings that do not need to be
       localized (see findstr(1)).  If the option is specified, places the following lines at the beginning of each file named in stringlist:

       where number is a set number defined by the option; the default is For each string in stringlist, surrounds the string in the corresponding
       file with an expression of the form:

       The  default  string is the original string referenced by the line in stringlist, and msg_num is replaced by the message number assigned to
       that string.  The assigned message numbers begin with the number defined by the option and are incremented by the  amount  defined  by  the
       option.	 The  default  is  for both the starting message number and the increment.  If is the file to be modified, as specified within the
       stringlist file, insertmsg places the modified source in The user must then manually edit the file to insert the following statements:

       The data type is defined in and is a parameter to the calls to catgets, which are inserted for each string from stringlist.

       also sends to the standard output a file that can be used as input to (see gencat(1)).

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the interpretation of text as single- and/or multi-byte characters.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each  unspecified  or  empty
       variable.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization
       variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C".  See environ(5).

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If does not find opening or closing double quotes where required in the strings file, it prints and aborts.  If	this  happens,	check  the
       strings file to ensure that the lines that have been kept there have not been altered.

WARNINGS

       If the option is not used, it may be necessary to manually add the following statement to the file created by

       inserts a pointer to a static area that is overwritten on each call.

       The command is HP proprietary, not portable to other vendors' systems, and will not be provided in future HP-UX releases.

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       findstr(1), gencat(1), catgets(3C), catopen(3C).

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