HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

pfmt(3C) pfmt(3C)

The pfmt() system call displays Message not found!!

under the following conditions:

• No message catalog is speciﬁed in fmt and no catalog is deﬁned via setcat(3C).

• msg_number is not positive.

• No message could be retrieved and def_str is not speciﬁed.

RETURN VALUE

If successful,

pfmt() and vpfmt() return the number of bytes written. Otherwise they return a nega-

tive value.

EXAMPLES

Example 1

setlabel("UX:my_appl");

pfmt(stderr, MM_INFO,"MY_cat:1:file is writable");

generates the message:

UX:my_appl: INFO: file is writable

Example 2

setlabel("");

setcat("MY_cat");

pfmt(stderr, MM_ERROR,":1:%s is writable", "my_file");

generates the message:

ERROR: my_file is writable

Example 3

setlabel("");

setcat("MY_cat");

pfmt(stderr, MM_NOSTD,":1:%s is writable", "my_file");

generates the message:

my_file is writable

Example 4

#define MM_USER 10

setlabel("");

addsev(MM_USER, "MY_NOTE");

pfmt(stderr, MM_USER|MM_GET,"MY_cat:1:%s is writable", "my_file");

generates the message:

MY_NOTE: my_file is writable