HELP WRITE — MicroVMS 4.4
Writes the specified data item as one record to an open file specified by a logical name. All qualifiers must precede all data-item expression Format WRITE logical-name data-item,...
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Parameters
logical-name Logical name of the output file. Use the logical name assigned by the OPEN command, or, in interactive mode, specify SYS$INPUT, SYS$OUTPUT, SYS$COMMAND, or SYS$ERROR to mean your terminal. data-item Symbol name, character string in quotation marks, literal numeric value, or a list of expressions. Multiple data items are concatenated into one record which cannot exceed 255 characters in length.
Qualifiers
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/ERROR=label
Transfers control on an I/O error to the location specified by label (in a command procedure). /ERROR overrides any ON condition action specified. The symbol $STATUS retains the error code.
/SYMBOL
Causes the expression to be interpreted and its expanded value placed in a 2048-byte (instead of a 1024-byte) buffer before the WRITE operation is performed. If you specify multiple expressions, their values are concatenated and placed in the 2048-byte buffer. Each expression specified must be a symbol.
/UPDATE
Replaces the last record read with the specified data-item. The specified data item must be exactly the same size as the record it is replacing. This qualifier can only be used if the file is opened for both read and write access.