MP>`msgen&acute;</SAMP> is useful as a first step for preparing English translation
catalogs.  It copies each message's msgid to its msgstr.

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Finally, for those applications where all these various programs are not
sufficient, a library <SAMP>`libgettextpo&acute;</SAMP> is provided that can be used to
write other specialized programs that process PO files.

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