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The ACTION Specification

The concept of ACTION is specific to instrumentation tasks (see SUN/134). The task is capable of obeying or cancelling a number of distinct commands known as actions. It does this, for example, in response to the ICL command:

SEND taskname context actionname parameter_list
where context is OBEY or CANCEL.

Actions have to be declared in the Interface File, following the parameter declarations. The Action Specification is of the form:

ACTION actionname
   fieldname fieldvalue
   context specifications
      .
ENDACTION
Where actionname is a character string specifying a valid action name. The same rules should be applied to action names as are applied to parameter names (see Appendix [*]).





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ADAM Interface Module Reference Manual
Starlink User Note 115
A J Chipperfield, B D Kelly, S L Wright
3 September 2002
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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