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- GETTEXT ST-UNIX User's Manual GETTEXT
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- COMMAND
- gettext - locally print, display or capture text files from a
- UNIX host.
-
- FORMAT
- gettext [%][+]<filename>
-
- DESCRIPTION
- pGettextq can either print, display or capture a text file
- that exists on a UNIX host. It is important that certain
- information be placed in the .cshrc and .login files of the host
- as follows:
-
- The .login file -
-
- alias incat 'setenv FOOBAR x ; /bin/csh ; unsetenv FOOBAR'
- alias outcat 'stty echo ; exit'
-
- The .cshrc file -
-
- if ($?FOOBAR) then
- set prompt = ''
- stty -echo
- echo 'ready'
- endif
-
- Furthermore, any prompt settings in the .cshrc file should be
- specified before the above if expression.
-
- The operation of pgettextq at execution is as follows: the
- 'incat' command is issued to the host. The host sets up a csh
- with no prompt and no echo and sends back 'ready'. pGettextq
- responds to the 'ready' signal by sending 'cat <filename>'. The
- file is cat'ed and printed locally. Upon completion of the text
- transmission a timer times out, the outcat command is issued to
- the host (restoring echo and prompt) and execution on the ST is
- terminated.
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- OPTIONS
- % = the text is both printed and displayed
-
- + = the text is displayed only
-
- no % or + = the text is printed only but a 120 character
- file head is displayed (thus error messages are seen).
-
- NOTES
- To capture text simply redirect output, for example by
-
- gettext +foo.bar > foo.bar
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- Execution may be stopped at any time by pressing ^C or Return.
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