redhat man page for msginit

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NAME
       msginit - initialize a message catalog

SYNOPSIS
       msginit [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
       Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with values from the user's environment.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

   Input file location:
       -i, --input=INPUTFILE
	      input POT file

       If no input file is given, the current directory is searched for the POT file.  If it is -, standard input is read.

   Output file location:
       -o, --output-file=FILE
	      write output to specified PO file

       If  no  output file is given, it depends on the --locale option or the user's locale setting.  If it is -, the results are written to stan-
       dard output.

   Output details:
       -l, --locale=LL_CC
	      set target locale

       --no-translator
	      assume the PO file is automatically generated

       -w, --width=NUMBER
	      set output page width

       --no-wrap
	      do not break long message lines, longer than the output page width, into several lines

   Informative output:
       -h, --help
	      display this help and exit

       -V, --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by Bruno Haible.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       The  full  documentation  for  msginit  is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and msginit programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info msginit

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU gettext 0.11.4						     July 2002								MSGINIT(1)