1.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Winning Strategies, Inc. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies, Inc. 15.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 16.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 20.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 21.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 22.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 23.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 24.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 25.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 26.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 27.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $Id: catopen.3,v 1.2 1994/11/18 15:36:16 jtc Exp $ 30.\" 31.Dd May 29, 1994 32.Dt CATOPEN 3 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm catopen 36.Nd open message catalog 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Fd #include <nl_types.h> 39.Ft nl_catd 40.Fn catopen "char *name" "int oflag" 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42.The 43.Fn catopen function 44opens the message catalog specified by 45.Fa name 46and returns a message catalog descriptor. 47If 48.Fa name 49contains a 50.Sq / 51then 52.Fa name 53specifies the full pathname for the message catalog, otherwise the value 54of the environment variable 55.Ev NLSPATH 56is used with 57.Fa name 58substituted for %N. 59.Pp 60The 61.Fa oflag 62argument is reserved for future use and should be set to zero. 63.Sh RETURN VALUE 64Upon successful completion, 65.Fn catopen 66returns a message catalog descriptor. 67Otherwise, (nl_catd) -1 is returned and 68.Va errno 69is set to indicate the error. 70.Sh ERRORS 71.Bl -tag -width Er 72.It Bq Er ENOMEM 73Insufficient memory is availiable. 74.El 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr catclose 3 , 77.Xr catgets 3 78.Sh STANDARDS 79The 80.Fn catopen 81function conforms to 82.St -xpg3 . 83