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- (This documentation is substantially the same as that in the source file.)
-
-
- MakeMB is a utility to ameliorate the problems in maintaining message
- files when you intend to bind messages to an executable file.
-
- If you plan on using the msgbind utility to bind a set of messages to
- an executable file then you have to supply a message bind directive
- file. This program helps you by automating the construction of the
- directive file.
-
- Two parameters are required. The first is the name of the executable
- file to which the message segment will be bound. The second is the
- name of the message file which was constructed by the mkmsgf utility.
- Standard input should come from the message source file, i.e. the
- one used as input to mkmsgf, and standard output should be sent to
- the bind directive file.
-
- Example:
-
- You have a brilliant program, brill.exe to which you want to bind
- a message segment. The source for the messages is in message.src
- and you used that as input to mkmsgf to build a binary message file
- message.bin.
-
- makemb brill.exe message.bin <message.src >message.mb
-
- takes as input the same message source used by mkmsgf and generates
- message.mb for input to msgbind.
-
- This makes the maintenance of message files a whole lot easier: you
- can change the message source file and construct the bind directive
- file automagically; otherwise every message numbering change would
- have to be manually duplicated in the bind directive file.
-
-
- Jon Saxton
- February 1990
-