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Parameter references
The ADAM versions of MSG and ERR allow reference to ADAM program
parameters within the message text.
Reference can be made either to parameter-keyword associations or to the name
of an ADAM data system object, data file or device associated with a parameter.
In message text used in calls to MSG and ERR routines these parameter
associations are indicated by the percent, ``%'', and dollar, ``$'', escape
characters respectively.
EMS does not have access to the ADAM parameter system and so cannot refer
to ADAM parameters in the text of messages.
The escape characters ``%'' and ``$'' are therefore treated literally as
part of the message text in calls to EMS_REP and EMS_EXPND
(or the deprecated EMS_MLOAD), as they are in the stand-alone
versions of MSG and ERR.
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EMS Error Message Service
Starlink System Note 4
P C T Rees
A J Chipperfield
28 September 2001
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk
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