Arguments

 

source-string

   OpenVMS usage:char_string
   type:         character string
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by descriptor

   Source string to be translated and moved by LIB$MOVTC. The
   source-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing
   to this source string.
 

fill-character

   OpenVMS usage:char_string
   type:         character string
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by descriptor

   Fill character used to pad source-string to the length of
   destination-string. The fill-character argument is the address
   of a descriptor pointing to a string. The first character of this
   string is used as the fill character. The length of this string
   is not checked and fill-character is not translated.
 

translation-table

   OpenVMS usage:char_string
   type:         character string
   access:       read only
   mechanism:    by descriptor

   Translation table used by LIB$MOVTC. The translation-table
   argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the
   translation table string. The translation table string is assumed
   to be 256 characters long.
 

   You can use any one of the translation tables supplied by VSI,
   or you can create your own. Translation tables supplied by VSI
   have names in the format LIB$AB_xxx_yyy, which represent the
   addresses of the 256-byte translation tables and can be accessed
   as external (string) variables. If a particular language cannot
   generate descriptors for external strings, then you must create
   them manually.
 

destination-string

   OpenVMS usage:char_string
   type:         character string
   access:       write only
   mechanism:    by descriptor

   Destination string into which LIB$MOVTC writes the translated
   source-string. The destination-string argument is the address of
   a descriptor pointing to this destination string.