This manual takes you step-by-step through the processes of: creating, accessing, and modifying application message catalogs (formatted with GENCAT.PUB.SYS), accessing system message catalogs, creating your own HELP facility, and maintaining application message catalogs that were formatted using MAKECAT.PUB.SYS.
This manual presents many examples; they show you each operation to perform and allow you to base your own actions on them. Complete program examples are shown, as well as program fragments, sample dialogs, and message catalog examples. Example programs are shown in the body of the manual in Pascal; examples in COBOL and FORTRAN are given in the appendices. Although error checking routines are not explained or presented in this manual, they are indicated on program examples. For information on intrinsic error checking, refer to the MPE/iX Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90028).
