x Pointer to the retrieved message. s Pointer to the default message string. Indicates that the function is not able to retrieve the requested message from the catalog. This condition can arise if the requested pair (set_d, msg_id) does not represent an existing message from the open catalog, or it indicates that an error occurred. If an error occurred, the function sets errno to one of the following values: o EBADF - The catalog descriptor is not valid. o EVMSRR - An OpenVMS I/O read error; the OpenVMS error code can be found in vaxc$errno.