gettxt
msgfile
:
msgnum
[
default_message
]
Obtain the message that resides in file
msgfile
and whose
message ID is
msgnum
.
msgnum
is a number from 1 to
n
,
where
n
is the number of messages in
msgfile
.
gettxt
searches for
msgfile
in directory
/usr/lib/locale/
locale
/LC_MESSAGES, where
locale
is the language in which the message strings have been written.
The value of
locale
is set by environment variable LC_MESSAGES,
or failing that, the LANG environment variable. If neither is set,
locale
defaults to a directory named
C
. If
gettxt
fails,
it displays
default_message
or (if none is specified) the string,
"Message not found!!"