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+2001-12-08  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * msgen.texi: Refer to msginit as an alternative.
+
 2001-12-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * msgexec.texi: Document option --keep-header.

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@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ input file is the last created English PO file, or a PO Template file
 (generally created by xgettext).  Untranslated entries are assigned a
 translation that is identical to the msgid, and are marked fuzzy.
 
+Note: @samp{msginit --no-translator --locale=en} performs a very similar
+task. The main difference is that @code{msginit} cares specially about
+the header entry, whereas @code{msgen} doesn't.
+
 @subsection Input file location
 
 @table @samp