Creating an Expanded Source File

To modify your application message catalog, you must have a source file. If you do not have access to your original source file, re-create a source file by expanding the formatted catalog with the GENCAT utility, as shown in Title not available.

The expanded source file doesn't have the comments that were included in the original, but the rest of the content in the catalog is the same. The expanded file is created as an unnumbered file, even if the original source was numbered. An expanded source file and an original source file are used in the same way, they are both source files.

Figure 4-2 Expanding a GENCAT Formatted Catalog

Listed below is an example of the user dialog for expanding a formatted message catalog:

     :RUN GENCAT.PUB.SYS 

     HP32414A.02.01 GENCAT/3000 (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD., 1983 

     ENTER INDEX OF DESIRED FUNCTION 
         0.  EXIT. 
         1.  HELP. 
         2.  MODIFY SOURCE CATALOG. 
         3.  FORMAT SOURCE INTO FORMATTED CATALOG. 
         4.  EXPAND FORMATTED CATALOG INTO SOURCE. 

     >>4 

     ENTER NAME OF FORMATTED CATALOG TO EXPAND 

     >>FORMAT 

     ENTER NAME OF NEW SOURCE FILE 


     >>SOURCE 

     EXPANDING... 

     TOTAL NUMBER OF SETS EXPANDED = 3 
     TOTAL NUMBER OF MESSAGES EXPANDED = 8 

     EXPANSION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED