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Name mshortname – shows short name of a file Note of warning This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools’s texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details. Description The mshortname command is used to display the short name of a file. Syntax: mshortname…
NAME msh – nmh shell (and BBoard reader) SYNOPSIS msh [-prompt string] [-scan | -noscan] [-topcur | -notopcur] [file] [-version] [-help] STATUS msh is deprecated and will be removed from the next nmh release. DESCRIPTION msh is an interactive program that implements a subset of the normal nmh commands operating on a single file in…
NAME msguntypot – update po files when a typo is fixed in pot file SYNOPSIS msguntypot -o <old_pot> -n <new_pot> pofiles… DESCRIPTION When you fix a trivial error which surely doesn’t affect translations (e.g. a typo) in a .pot file, you should unfuzzy the corresponding msgstr in the translated .po files to avoid so extra…
NAME msguniq – unify duplicate translations in message catalog SYNOPSIS msguniq [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DESCRIPTION Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog. Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using the –repeated option, only duplicates…
NAME msgunfmt – uncompile message catalog from binary format SYNOPSIS msgunfmt [OPTION] [FILE]… DESCRIPTION Convert binary message catalog to Uniforum style .po file. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Operation mode: -j, –java Java mode: input is a Java ResourceBundle class –csharp C# mode: input is a .NET .dll file…
NAME msgmerge – merge message catalog and template SYNOPSIS msgmerge [OPTION] def.po ref.pot DESCRIPTION Merges two Uniforum style .po files together. The def.po file is an existing PO file with translations which will be taken over to the newly created file as long as they still match; comments will be preserved, but extracted comments and…
NAME msginit – initialize a message catalog SYNOPSIS msginit [OPTION] DESCRIPTION Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with values from the user’s environment. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location: -i, –input=INPUTFILE input POT file If no input file is given, the current directory is…
NAME msghack – alter PO files in ways SYNOPSIS msghack [OPTION] file.po [ref.po] DESCRIPTION This program can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about. -o result will be written to FILE –invert invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr –master join any number of files in…
NAME msggrep – pattern matching on message catalog SYNOPSIS msggrep [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DESCRIPTION Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a given pattern or belong to some given source files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location: INPUTFILE input PO file -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to…
NAME msgfmt – compile message catalog to binary format SYNOPSIS msgfmt [OPTION] filename.po … DESCRIPTION Generate binary message catalog from textual translation description. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Similarly for optional arguments. Input file location: filename.po … input files -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to list for input files search…
NAME msgfilter – edit translations of message catalog SYNOPSIS msgfilter [OPTION] FILTER [FILTER-OPTION] DESCRIPTION Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location: -i, –input=INPUTFILE input PO file -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to list for input files search If no…
NAME msgexec – process translations of message catalog SYNOPSIS msgexec [OPTION] COMMAND [COMMAND-OPTION] DESCRIPTION Applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog. The COMMAND can be any program that reads a translation from standard input. It is invoked once for each translation. Its output becomes msgexec’s output. msgexec’s return code is the maximum…
NAME msgen – create English message catalog SYNOPSIS msgen [OPTION] INPUTFILE DESCRIPTION Creates an English translation catalog. The input file is the last created English PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created by xgettext). Untranslated entries are assigned a translation that is identical to the msgid. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory…
NAME msgconv – character set conversion for message catalog SYNOPSIS msgconv [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DESCRIPTION Converts a translation catalog to a different character encoding. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location: INPUTFILE input PO file -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to list for input files search If no input file…
NAME msgcomm – match two message catalogs SYNOPSIS msgcomm [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]… DESCRIPTION Find messages which are common to two or more of the specified PO files. By using the –more-than option, greater commonality may be requested before messages are printed. Conversely, the –less-than option may be used to specify less commonality before messages are printed…
NAME msgcmp – compare message catalog and template SYNOPSIS msgcmp [OPTION] def.po ref.pot DESCRIPTION Compare two Uniforum style .po files to check that both contain the same set of msgid strings. The def.po file is an existing PO file with the translations. The ref.pot file is the last created PO file, or a PO Template…
NAME msgchk – check for messages SYNOPSIS msgchk [-date | -nodate] [-notify all/mail/nomail ] [-nonotify all/mail/nomail ] [-host hostname] [-user username] [-sasl] [-saslmech mechanism] [-snoop] [users … ] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION The msgchk program checks all known mail drops for mail waiting for you. For those drops which have mail for you, msgchk will indicate…
NAME msgcat – combines several message catalogs SYNOPSIS msgcat [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]… DESCRIPTION Concatenates and merges the specified PO files. Find messages which are common to two or more of the specified PO files. By using the –more-than option, greater commonality may be requested before messages are printed. Conversely, the –less-than option may be used to…
NAME msgattrib – attribute matching and manipulation on message catalog SYNOPSIS msgattrib [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DESCRIPTION Filters the messages of a translation catalog according to their attributes, and manipulates the attributes. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location: INPUTFILE input PO file -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to list for…
NAME msexpand – decompress data compressed using mscompress(1) or COMPRESS.EXE SYNOPSIS msexpand [ -h ] msexpand [ -V ] msexpand [ name … ] DESCRIPTION Msexpand decompress files compressed using mscompress(1) or Microsoft COMPRESS.EXE utility (e.g. Windows 3.x installation files). If no files are specified, the standard input is decompressed to the standard output. AUTHORS…