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DAT_UPDAT - Force HDS update

Description:
If there is an HDS object associated with the parameter, force its container file to be freed so that its memory cache coincides with the data on disk and the file is available for other programs to use.

Invocation:
CALL DAT_UPDAT ( PARAM, STATUS )

Arguments:

PARAM=CHARACTER*(*) (given)
Name of program parameter.
STATUS=INTEGER (given and returned)
Global status



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HDSPAR - HDS Parameter Routines
Starlink User Note 224
A J Chipperfield
10 February 2000
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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