gettxt(1)             UNIX System V(Essential Utilities)              gettxt(1)


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

SYNOPSIS
      gettxt msgfile:msgnum [dflt_msg]

DESCRIPTION
      gettxt retrieves a text string from a 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 from which to retrieve msgnum.  The name can
                be up to 14 characters in length, but may not contain either \0
                (null) or the characters / (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.

      dflt_msg  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
      dflt_msg is present and non-empty, then it will display the value of
      dflt_msg; if dflt_msg is not present or is empty, then it will display
      the string Message not found!!\n.

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)




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gettxt(1)             UNIX System V(Essential Utilities)              gettxt(1)


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

SEE ALSO
      exstr(1), mkmsgs(1), srchtxt(1).
      gettxt(3C), setlocale(3C) in the "Programmer's Reference Manual".
















































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