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Multiple calls to TASK_ASTSIGNAL, TASK_ASTMSG

It is now possible for an AST handler to make multiple calls to TASK_ASTSIGNAL and TASK_ASTMSG during a single execution. The information carried in the call is now sent as a message (rather than entered in a COMMON block) and so the last call does not overwrite the earlier ones.



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ADAM Guide to Writing Instrumentation Tasks
Starlink User Note 134
B D Kelly
A J Chipperfield

30 March 1992
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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