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mkcatdefs — Preprocess a message source file
Format
Description
Options
mkcatdefs [–h] MsgFile [SourceFile ... ]
mkcatdefs preprocesses a message source file for input to the gencat utility.
SourceFile is a message file (usually with a .msf extension) containing symbolic
identifiers. mkcatdefs produces two outputs:
v MsgFile.h, which contains statements that equate your symbolic identifiers with
set numbers and message numbers that mkcatdefs assigns. You must include
this header file in your application in order to refer to the messages.
v Message source data, with numbers instead of symbolic identifiers, is sent to
standard output. This output is suitable as input to the gencat utility. You should
either save standard output to a file using redirection, or pipe the output of
mkcatdefs to the gencat utility.
–h Suppresses the generation of a MsgFile.h file. This flag must be the first
argument to mkcatdefs
Extended Description
The format of SourceFile is defined as follows: The fields of a message source line
must begin in column 1 and are separated by a single blank character. Any other
blank characters are considered as part of the subsequent field.
$quote
See gencat.
$set symbolic_name
The symbolic_name denotes the set identifier that will be used in an
application program to reference this set of messages. This name can be
up to 255 characters long and can contain any alphanumeric character and
the underscore character, but must begin with a non-numeric character. Any
string following the set identifier is treated as a comment.
$ comment
See gencat.
Symbolic_Name message_text
The Symbolic_Name denotes a message identifier that will be used in an
application program to reference this message. This name can be up to 255
characters long and can contain any alphanumeric character and the
underscore character, but must begin with a non-numeric character. There
must be a single blank character separating the symbolic_name from the
message_text. If no quote character is defined, then any blank characters
after the separating blank character are considered part of the message
text. See gencat for more information on how to specify message_text.
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