What is the sctructure of a messages catalog file ?

[Jdamian]

I thought the message catalog files were text file... they aren't.

What is the internal format of these files ?

[Steve Steel]

Hi

See man dumpmsg


steve Steel

[Jdamian]

'dumpmsg' man pages are not useful.

Supose you have to implement the catopen(), catclose() and catgets () system calls ... you need the internal structure to read the .cat files.

[Helen French]

Hi Damian:

If I understood correctly, then you can use the command 'file' for finding out the type of any files.

# man file - for details

HTH,
Shiju

[Jdamian]

No Shiju. "file" command is not what I was looking for.

I myself found the internal structure of a message catalog file by inspecting short message catalog files and msgcat.h header file.