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  10 <h1 align=center>MSGINIT</h1>
  11 <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
  12 <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
  13 <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
  14 <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
  15 <a href="#REPORTING BUGS">REPORTING BUGS</a><br>
  16 <a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>
  17 <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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  20 <a name="NAME"></a>
  21 <h2>NAME</h2>
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  28 <p>msginit &minus; initialize a message catalog</p>
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  31 <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
  32 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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  39 <p><b>msginit</b> [<i>OPTION</i>]</p>
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  42 <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
  43 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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  50 <p>Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information
  51 with values from the user&rsquo;s environment.</p>
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  53 <p>Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for
  54 short options too.</p>
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  63 <p><b>Input file location:</b></p></td>
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  71 <p><b>&minus;i</b>,
  72 <b>&minus;&minus;input</b>=<i>INPUTFILE</i></p></td>
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  80 <p>input POT file</p>
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  89 <p>If no input file is given, the current directory is
  90 searched for the POT file. If it is -, standard input is
  91 read.</p>
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 100 <p><b>Output file location:</b></p></td>
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 108 <p><b>&minus;o</b>,
 109 <b>&minus;&minus;output&minus;file</b>=<i>FILE</i></p></td>
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 117 <p>write output to specified PO file</p>
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 126 <p>If no output file is given, it depends on the
 127 <b>&minus;&minus;locale</b> option or the user&rsquo;s
 128 locale setting. If it is -, the results are written to
 129 standard output.</p>
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 146 <p><b>&minus;P</b>,
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 155 <p>input file is in Java .properties syntax</p>
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 172 <p>input file is in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax</p>
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 189 <p><b>&minus;l</b>,
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 198 <p>set target locale</p>
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 215 <p>assume the PO file is automatically generated</p>
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 232 <p>use colors and other text attributes always</p>
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 249 <p>use colors and other text attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be
 250 &rsquo;always&rsquo;, &rsquo;never&rsquo;,
 251 &rsquo;auto&rsquo;, or &rsquo;html&rsquo;.</p>
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 287 <p>write out a Java .properties file</p>
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 304 <p>write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings file</p>
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 313 <p><b>&minus;w</b>,
 314 <b>&minus;&minus;width</b>=<i>NUMBER</i></p></td>
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 322 <p>set output page width</p>
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 331 <p><b>&minus;&minus;no&minus;wrap</b></p></td>
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 339 <p>do not break long message lines, longer than the output
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 349 <p><b>Informative output:</b></p></td>
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 357 <p><b>&minus;h</b>, <b>&minus;&minus;help</b></p></td>
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 365 <p>display this help and exit</p>
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 374 <p><b>&minus;V</b>, <b>&minus;&minus;version</b></p></td>
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 382 <p>output version information and exit</p>
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 385 <a name="AUTHOR"></a>
 386 <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
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 393 <p>Written by Bruno Haible.</p>
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 396 <a name="REPORTING BUGS"></a>
 397 <h2>REPORTING BUGS</h2>
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 404 <p>Report bugs to &lt;bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org&gt;.</p>
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 407 <a name="COPYRIGHT"></a>
 408 <h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
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 415 <p>Copyright &copy; 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 416 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
 417 &lt;http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&gt;<br>
 418 This is free software: you are free to change and
 419 redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
 420 permitted by law.</p>
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 423 <a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
 424 <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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 431 <p>The full documentation for <b>msginit</b> is maintained
 432 as a Texinfo manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>msginit</b>
 433 programs are properly installed at your site, the
 434 command</p>
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 443 <p><b>info msginit</b></p>
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 452 <p>should give you access to the complete manual.</p>
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