The input message file is a standard ASCII file that contains three types of lines:

Comment lines are the first lines of a file and must begin with a semicolon. A component-identifier is a three-character name identifier (for example, "DOS") that precedes all MKMSGF message numbers. Component-message lines consist of a message header and an ASCII text message.

The following is an example of a text message source file.

  ;This is an example  ;of a text message
  ;file
  DOS
  DOS0100E: File not found
  DOS0101?:
  DOS0102H: Usage: del [drive:][path] filename
  DOS0103?:
  DOS0104I: 1% files copied
  DOS0105?:
  DOS0106W: Warning! All data will be erased!
  DOS0107?:
  DOS0108?:
  DOS0109P: Do you wish to apply these patches (Y or N)? %0

where:

DOS0100E - DOS0109P

E, H, I, P, W %0


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