Following is a sample of MKMSGF output, using the Verbose option (/V). This output was produced using the following command:
mkmsgf myapp.txt myapp.msg /v
strIn = myapp.txt strOut = myapp.msg StrIncDir = (null) CodePages = 437 Language family id = 0 and sub id = 0 Language family id and sub id = unspecified flags = none CP_type = SBCS "myapp.txt": length = 382 bytes. 29 messages scanned. Writing output file... Size of table entry: word