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NAME
       gencat - Generate message catalog

SYNOPSIS
       gencat [OPTION...] -o OUTPUT-FILE [INPUT-FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       The gencat program is specified in the X/Open standard and the GNU
       implementation follows this specification and so processes all
       correctly formed input files. Additionally some extension are
       implemented which help to work in a more reasonable way with the
       catgets(3) functions.


       -H, --header NAME
	      Create C header file NAME containing symbol definitions

       --new  Do not use existing catalog, force new output file

       -o, --output NAME
	      Write output to file NAME

AUTHOR
       gencat was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.

       This man page was written by Jeff Bailey .









3rd Berkeley Distribution	 November 2003			     GENCAT(1)