prompt
OpenVMS usage:character string
type: string descriptor
access: read only
mechanism: by reference
A string that must begin with "cr,lf". For example, to produce
the standard user name prompt, use your language equivalent of
the following BLISS value:
UPLIT(12,UPLIT BYTE(CR,LF,'Username: '))
Declare the string in C using the following statement:
$DESCRIPTOR(<variable_name>, "lrlnUsername:")
You then pass the descriptor using the variable name.
This routine also produces the standard user name prompt if you
pass the value 0 for this argument.