This user-written routine is invoked by the DECTPU built-in procedure CALL_USER. The built-in procedure CALL_USER passes three parameters to this routine. These parameters are then passed to the appropriate part of your application to be used as specified. (For example, they can be used as operands in a calculation within a Fortran program.) Using the string routines provided by the Run-Time Library, your application fills in the stringout parameter in the call-user routine, which returns the stringout value to the built-in procedure CALL_USER. The description of the built-in procedure CALL_USER in the DEC Text Processing Utility Reference Manual shows an example of a BASIC program that is a call-user routine.