destination-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: write only mechanism: by descriptor Destination string (dynamic or varying length). STR$PREFIX copies the source string into the beginning of this destination string. The destination-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the destination string. source-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor Source string that STR$PREFIX copies into the beginning of the destination string. The source-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the source string.