 written in Germany -- she needs to apply some text
processing to every message in the catalog.  The tool for doing this is
<SAMP>`msgfilter&acute;</SAMP>.

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Another use of <CODE>msgfilter</CODE> is to produce approximately the POT file for
which a given PO file was made.  This can be done through a filter command
like <SAMP>`msgfilter sed -e d | sed -e '/^# /d'&acute;</SAMP>.  Note that the original
POT file may have had different comments and different plural message counts,
that's why it's better