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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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