The Invoke $FAOL System Service to Format Output routine calls
the $FAOL system service, returning the string in the semantics
you provide. If called with other than a fixed-length string
for output, the length of the resultant string is limited to 256
bytes and truncation occurs.
Format
LIB$SYS_FAOL character-string [,resultant-length]
,resultant-string ,directive-argument-address
Additional Information:
explode
extract