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Message parameters

In calls to the ADAM version of ERR_REP, the error message name PARAM is a globally unique identifier for the error message text which corresponds to the message parameter of the error message. The ADAM interface file can be used to associate this message parameter with an error message, and only if this message parameter is not defined in the interface file is the argument TEXT used in the error report. When using EMS_REP (or the deprecated EMS_MLOAD) within the ADAM environment software, no access to the ADAM interface file exists and so the error message given by the argument TEXT is always used. The use of a globally unique error message name is still recommended for reported error messages to uniquely identify the error message text to the programmer, using the convention outlined in SUN/104.



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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

Copyright © 2001 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils