gettxt(1)                        DG/UX 5.4.2                       gettxt(1)


NAME
       gettxt - retrieve a text string from a message data base

SYNOPSIS
       gettxt msgfile:msgnum [dfltmsg]

DESCRIPTION
       gettxt retrieves a text string from an AT&T-style message file in the
       directory /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES.  The directory name
       locale corresponds to the language in which the text strings are
       written; see setlocale(3C).


       msgfile   Name of the file in the directory
                 /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES to retrieve msgnum from.
                 The name of msgfile can be up to 14 characters in length,
                 but may not contain either \0 (null) or the ASCII code for
                 / (slash) or : (colon).

       msgnum    Sequence number of the string to retrieve from msgfile.
                 The strings in msgfile are numbered sequentially from 1 to
                 n, where n is the number of strings in the file.

       dfltmsg  Default string to be displayed if gettxt fails to retrieve
                 msgnum from msgfile.  Nongraphic characters must be
                 represented as alphabetic escape sequences.

       The text string to be retrieved is in the file msgfile, created by
       the mkmsgs(1) utility and installed under the directory
       /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES.  You control which directory is
       searched by setting the environment variable LCMESSAGES.  If
       LCMESSAGES is not set, the environment variable LANG will be used.
       If LANG is not set, the files containing the strings are under the
       directory /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES.

       If gettxt fails to retrieve a message in the requested language, it
       will try to retrieve the same message from
       /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES/msgfile.  If this also fails, and if
       dfltmsg is present and non-null, then it will display the value of
       dfltmsg; if dfltmsg is not present or is null, then it will display
       the string Message not found!!.

EXAMPLE
       If the environment variables LANG or LCMESSAGES have not been set to
       other than their default values,
              gettxt UX:10 "hello world\n"
       will try to retrieve the 10th message from
       /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES/UX.  If the retrieval fails, the
       message "hello world," followed by a new-line, will be displayed.

FILES
       /usr/lib/locale/C/LCMESSAGES/*         default message files created
                                               by mkmsgs(1)
       /usr/lib/locale/locale/LCMESSAGES/*    message files for different



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gettxt(1)                        DG/UX 5.4.2                       gettxt(1)


                                               languages created by
                                               mkmsgs(1)

SEE ALSO
       exstr(1), mkmsgs(1), srchtxt(1).
       gettxt(3C), setlocale(3C).
       gencat(1), catgets(1), catopen(3C), catgets(3C) -- X/Open-style
       message facilities.

















































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