string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character-coded text string access: modify mechanism: by descriptor Text string passed to the nokeypad command XLATE. You can use the nokeypad command XLATE by defining a key to include the following command in its definition: XLATEtext^Z The text is passed by the string argument. The string argument can be handled by the Run-Time Library routine STR$COPY_DX. This argument is also a text string returned to EDT. The string is made up of nokeypad commands that EDT is to execute.