resultant-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: write only mechanism: by descriptor String that LIB$GET_INPUT gets from the input device. The resultant-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the character string into which LIB$GET_INPUT writes the text received from the current input device. prompt-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor Prompt message that is displayed on the controlling terminal. The prompt-string argument is the address of a descriptor containing the prompt. Any string can be a valid prompt. By convention however, a prompt consists of text followed by a colon (:), a space, and no carriage-return/line-feed combination. The maximum size of the prompt message is 255 characters. If the controlling input device is not a terminal, this argument is ignored. resultant-length OpenVMS usage:word_unsigned type: word (unsigned) access: write only mechanism: by reference Number of bytes written into resultant-string by LIB$GET_ INPUT, not counting padding in the case of a fixed string. The resultant-length argument is the address of an unsigned word containing this number. If the input string is truncated to the size specified in the resultant-string descriptor, resultant- length is set to this size. Therefore, resultant-length can always be used by the calling program to access a valid substring of resultant-string.