The Move Characters routine makes the VAX MOVC3 instruction available as a callable routine. The source item is moved to the destination item. Overlap of the source and destination items does not affect the result. Format LIB$MOVC3 word-integer-length ,source ,destination
1 – Returns
None.
2 – Arguments
word-integer-length OpenVMS usage:word_unsigned type: word (unsigned) access: read only mechanism: by reference Number of bytes to be moved from source to destination by LIB$MOVC3. The word-integer-length argument is the address of an unsigned word that contains this number of bytes. The maximum transfer is 65,535 bytes. source OpenVMS usage:unspecified type: unspecified access: read only mechanism: by reference Item to be moved. The source argument is the address of this item. destination OpenVMS usage:unspecified type: unspecified access: write only mechanism: by reference Item into which source will be moved. The destination argument is the address of this item.